A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 183

“In this age, certainly, poetry persists under many disadvantages. Just as it has been cut off from most of the people who in another age would have read it, so it has been cut off from most of the people who in another age would have written it.”

— from the “The Obscurity of the Poet” in Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell

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