Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased — in colonizing as the saying is — ha… - Marianne Moore
" "Like strangler figs choking
a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist,
not one of us, in taking what we
pleased — in colonizing as the
saying is — has been a synonym for mercy.
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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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Marianne Craig Moore
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EDITOR’S NOTES Poetry Diary of Tolstoy; Dutton, p. 84: “Where the boundary between prose and poetry lies, I shall never be able to understand. The question is raised in manuals of style, yet the answer to it lies beyond me. Poetry is verse: prose is not verse. Or else poetry is everything with the exception of business documents and school books.
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