Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can gras… - Marianne Moore

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Poetry
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... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise

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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise - Marianne Moore

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