There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight til… - Marianne Moore

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There never was a war that was
not inward; I must fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore (15 November 1887 – 5 February 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. For her Collected Poems (1951), she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.

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Alternative Names: Marianne Craig Moore

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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

In Homer, existence
is flawed; transcendence, conditional; ' the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual',

Tell me, Tell me where might there be a refuge for me
from egocentricity
and its propensity to bisect, mis-state, misunderstand
and obliterate continuity?

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I conquered in myself what causes war - Marianne Moore

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