One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pl… - Marianne Moore

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One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.

Marianne Moore

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writing poetry pleasing-yourself

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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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Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron
iron is iron till it is rust.
There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I have conquered in myself what
causes war, but I would not believe it.
I inwardly did nothing.
O Iscariot-like crime!
Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

Appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere. - Marianne Moore

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