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Marianne Moore Quotes about Fighting

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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

Marianne Moore
Fall, Fighting, Animal
Marianne Moore (1956). “Like a bulwark”, Viking Press, 1957

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Marianne Moore
Fighting, Self, Sick
Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.146, Penguin

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