Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, “That were to consider it too curiously.”

— Randall Jarrell The Third Book of Criticism (1969)

More quotes by Randall Jarrell

Poetry and the Age (1953)

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