repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. - Marianne Moore

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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of
the sea;
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

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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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Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron
iron is iron till it is rust.
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causes war, but I would not believe it.
I inwardly did nothing.
O Iscariot-like crime!
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