The power of the visible is the invisible; as even where no… - Marianne Moore

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The power of the visible
is the invisible; as even where
no tree of freedom grows,
so-called brute courage knows.

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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I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
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If you demand on the other hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.

The power of the visible is the invisible; as even where no tree of freedom grows, so-called brute courage knows. - Marianne Moore

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