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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

— Marianne Moore

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You are not male nor female, but a plan
deep-set within the heart of man.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.

The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

Maine should be pleased that its animal
is not a waverer, and rather
than fight, lets the primed quill fall.
Shallow oppressor, intruder,
insister, you have found a resister.

The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

Staff and effigy of the animal
which by shedding its skin
is a sign of renewal —
the symbol of medicine.

The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

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