Marianne Moore Poems

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1.
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
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2.
Marriage

This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
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3.
Nevertheless

you've seen a strawberry
that's had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
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4.
Silence

My father used to say,
"Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow's grave
nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
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5.
He Made This Screen

not of silver nor of coral,
but of weatherbeaten laurel.

Here, he introduced a sea
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6.
Rosemary

Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary -
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
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7.
A Grave

Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as
           you have to it yourself,
it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
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8.
Baseball And Writing

Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing.
You can never tell with either
how it will go
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9.
No Swan So Fine

"No water so still as the
dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
with swart blind look askance
and gondoliering legs, so fine
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10.
To A Steam Roller

The illustration
is nothing to you without the application.
You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down
into close conformity, and then walk back and forth on them.
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