Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance? (Randall Jarrell)

Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?

Randall Jarrell

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