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1887–1972 United States
Marianne Moore (15 November 1887 – 5 February 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. For her Collected Poems (1951), she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.
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What is our innocence,
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.
There never was a war that was
You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it !
Tell me, Tell me where might there be a refuge for me
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
In Homer, existence
A symbol from the first, of mastery,
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested ... liberate the imagination.
'Hebrew poetry is,
Collected Poems (1951)
... If we can't be cordial
I've always felt that if a thing had been said in the best way, how can you say it better? … If you are charmed by an author, I think it's a very strange and invalid imagination that doesn't long to share it. Somebody else should read it.
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