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Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)


Modernist American poet and writer.
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Marianne Moore
The problems is mastered — insupportably
tiring when it was impending.
Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom.
Moore quotes
This is a strange fraternity — these sea lions and land lions,
land unicorns and sea unicorns;
the lion civilly rampant,
tame and concessive like the long-tailed bear of Ecuador —
the lion standing up against this screen of woven air
which is the forest:
the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity.
Moore
We Call Them the Brave
who likely were reluctant to be brave.




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