The motto of his [Robinson Jeffers's] work is "More! More!”-but as Tolstoy says, "A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion”; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: "A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.”. (Randall Jarrell)

The motto of his [Robinson Jeffers's] work is "More! More!”-but as Tolstoy says, "A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion”; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: "A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.”.

Randall Jarrell

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