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Marianne Moore

(November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972 / Kirkwood, Missouri)

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Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of construction engineer and inventor John Milton Moore and his wife, Mary Warner. She grew up in her grandfather's household; her father having been committed to a mental hospital before her birth. In 1905, Moore entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and graduated four years later. She taught at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, until 1915, when Moore began to publish poetry professionally. more >>

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''Victory won't come

to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till

knotted thirty times,—''

Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Nevertheless (l. 21-25). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.

''O to be a dragon
a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!''

Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "O To Be a Dragon," O To Be a Dragon (1959).

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