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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Partly
Steadies
Work
Prey
Alternating
Always
Sun
Curtailed
Says
Thwarted
Fear
Blaze
Extinguished
Comes
Anew
Soul
Dusk
Done

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