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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.

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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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