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