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

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About Marianne Moore

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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