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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Poetry
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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