About Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Erik Lindegren.
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.