Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 181
“Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.”
“Recent Poetry”, p. 225
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
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