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Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972 / Kirkwood, Missouri)
Poems of Marianne Moore
| 1. | A Grave | 1/3/2003 |
| 2. | An Octopus | 4/15/2010 |
| 3. | Baseball and Writing | 1/20/2003 |
| 4. | He "Digesteth Harde Yron" | 1/20/2003 |
| 5. | He Made This Screen | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | His Shield | 4/15/2010 |
| 7. | Marriage | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | Nevertheless | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | No Swan So Fine | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Peter | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | Poetry | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | Rosemary | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Roses Only | 4/15/2010 |
| 14. | Silence | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | Spenser's Island | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | The Fish | 4/15/2010 |
| 17. | The Pangolin | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | The Paper Nautilus | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | The Past is the Present | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | The Steeple-Jack | 1/3/2003 |
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Poetry
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
