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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Marianne Moore

Born: November 15, 1887
Died: February 5, 1972 (aged 84)
Bio: Marianne Craig Moore was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
Known for:
- The complete poems of Marianne Moore (1967)
- The poems of Marianne Moore
- The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
- The complete prose of Marianne Moore
- Becoming Marianne Moore
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