“Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.”

— Randall Jarrell

“Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 61
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

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“Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.”

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