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“Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.”

Quote by Marianne Moore

Book:Complete Poems

Work

This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career. more

Author

American poet known for her unique modernist style and profound philosophical insights. Her poetry is concise and insightful, often exploring themes of nature, art, and the human condition. more

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“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”

Hard Editors Unfair Editing

Author:Marianne Moore

“The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.”

Strong Weak Overcoming Menace

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.”

Men Forever Medusa

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“How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.”

Lying Arms Determination Finals Dogma

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“If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.”

Ifs Mean Art Sound Elements Tasks Sight Commit Agony Prisms Using Words

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“They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.”

Book:Collected Poems, 1917-1982

Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.”

Men Dignity Personal Dignity

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.”

Men Wish Happened Particular Every Man Journalism

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“What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.”

World Matter Belief Behinds Information Ignorance Discovery No Matter What Changing The World

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“Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.”

Keys Becoming West Artistic

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens