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"I dont consider In Distrust of Merits a poem. Its just a burst of feelings. Its emotion recorded, a haphazard form a protest."
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Marianne MooreI look upon verse as an exercise in composition. — Marianne Moore
"I look upon verse as an exercise in composition."
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
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Marianne Craig Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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"Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people."
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"Yes, I believe in prayer, as a mystery which can endow one with more power perhaps than any other spiritual mystery, yet a mystery that cannot be exposited to a point where it is not a mystery."
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"O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!"
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"I have been influenced by the Bible, Bachs music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins."
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