“…it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.”

— Randall Jarrell , book Pictures from an Institution

Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 173

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

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