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  • The unfinished "Stoves & Clocks" recalls Marianne Moore's meticulous way of describing things and her ability to give herself up entirely to the object under contemplation.

    The Power of Reticence Simic, Charles 2006

  • To paraphrase Marianne Moore: Women have power and sometimes one is made to feel it.

    Girls & Guns Als, Hilton 2003

  • Woolf: "I loaned my Black & Decker hedgetrimmer to Marianne Moore, and now she won't give it back."

    A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

  • Even non-English majors can cite titles, images or stanzas by W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin—and can conjure up a picture of them—while Mr. Wilbur's achievements and the man himself remain blurry.

    A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • I personally think trash-talk has no place in golf, but ever since Karl Shapiro said Marianne Moore was “never more beatable”, suddenly everybody's doing it.

    At the Pine-Woods Golf & Poetry Club Con Chapman 2011

  • With the collaboration of Monroe's "overseas correspondent," Ezra Pound, the magazine published T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams when they were largely unknown.

    Poetry's New Palace Joel Henning 2011

  • Marianne Moore throws out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium—I kid you not.

    At the Pine-Woods Golf & Poetry Club Con Chapman 2011

  • In these exquisite settings of poems by Marianne Moore, the vocal line, expressively delivered by soprano Claire Booth, seemed to float and plunge on waves of delicate, splashy marimba and crisp, percussive detail.

    Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival 2010

  •   I personally think trash-talk has no place in golf, but ever since Karl Shapiro said Marianne Moore was “never more beatable”, suddenly everybody's doing it.

    At the Pine-Woods Poetry and Golf Club 2010

  • Marianne Moore throws out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium — I kid you not.

    At the Pine-Woods Poetry and Golf Club 2010

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