If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.


Three Books, p. 230 - Poetry and the Age (1953)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent,...

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent,...

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent,...

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent,...