A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you...

... a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...

Randall Jarrell

"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," [an essay about the writing of the poem by that name] from Understanding Poetry, third edition, ed. Cleanth Brooks (1960) [p. 319] - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...