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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 Moore"that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder."
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.
"I dont consider In Distrust of Merits a poem. Its just a burst of feelings. Its emotion recorded, a haphazard form a protest."
"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
"Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people."
"O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!"
"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."
"I have been influenced by the Bible, Bachs music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins."