The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it. (Randall Jarrell)

The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.

Randall Jarrell

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