The work of art is as done as it will ever get, and all the critics in the world can't make its crust a bit browner; they may help us, the indigent readers, but they haven't done a thing to it. Around the throne of God, where all the angels read perfectly, there are no critics – there is no need for them.


Poetry and the Age (1953)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

The work of art is as done as it will ever get, and all the critics in the world can't make its crust a bit browner; they may help us, the indigent...

The work of art is as done as it will ever get, and all the critics in the world can't make its crust a bit browner; they may help us, the indigent...

The work of art is as done as it will ever get, and all the critics in the world can't make its crust a bit browner; they may help us, the indigent...

The work of art is as done as it will ever get, and all the critics in the world can't make its crust a bit browner; they may help us, the indigent...