What we are most anxious about is our anxiety itself: the greatest of all sins, Auden learns from Kafka, is impatience - and he decides that the hero "is, in fact, one who is not anxious.”. (Randall Jarrell)

What we are most anxious about is our anxiety itself: the greatest of all sins, Auden learns from Kafka, is impatience - and he decides that the hero "is, in fact, one who is not anxious.”.

Randall Jarrell

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