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Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.. American Modernist poet and writer

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1	Marriage
2	A Grave
3	The Past is the Present
4	To a Steam Roller
5	The Pangolin

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Baseball and Writing

He Digesteth Harde Yron

He Made This Screen

No Swan So Fine

Spensers Ireland

The Paper Nautilus

The Past is the Present

The Steeple-Jack

To a Steam Roller

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Quote Left If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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Quote Left When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
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Quote Left War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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Quote Left Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Quote Left As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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