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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

More from Marianne Moore

  1. O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
  2. A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
  3. You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
  4. that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
  5. I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one di…
  6. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
  7. This is a strange fraternity - these sea lions and land lions, land unicorns and sea unicorns; the lion civilly rampant, tame and concessiv…
  8. So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the…

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