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Слушать(AI)The Past is the Present
If external action is effeteand rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible classthe teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said - and I think I repeat his exact words - "Hebrew poetry is prosewith a sort of heightened consciousness." Ecstasy affordsthe occasion and expediency determines the form.
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted
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