One is forced to remember how far from "self-expression" great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent. (Randall Jarrell)

One is forced to remember how far from "self-expression" great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.

Randall Jarrell

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