United States, Poet November 15, 1887 – February, 5, 1972.
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
Also known as Critic, Translator, Editor
Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
Omissions are not accidents.
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