Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 15
Poetry and the Age (1953)
“Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.”
— T.S. Eliot, book Four Quartets
Source: Four Quartets
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