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Predilections by Marianne Moore
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“... extended explanation tends to spoil the lion's leap - an awkwardness which is surely brought home to one in conversation... [In addition] the lion's leap would be mitigated almost to harmlessness if the lion were clawless, so precision is both impact and exactitude as with surgery.”
― Marianne Moore, Predilections

tags: feeling-and-precision

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“One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.”
― Marianne Moore, Predilections

tags: pleasing-yourself, poetry, writing

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