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Randall Jarrell

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The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything—I am being sympathetic, not satiric—for the very best reasons.
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“Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden’s Poetry”, p. 149

 
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