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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

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
Unless
Grape
Times
Knot
Come
Knots
Grapes
Ties
Thirty
Till
Victory
Knotted

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