BY DISPOSITION OF ANGELS
Messengers much like ourselves? Explain it.
Steadfastness the darkness makes explicit?
Something heard most clearly when not near it?
Above particularities,
these unparticularities praise cannot violate.
One has seen, in such steadiness never deflected,
how by darkness a star is perfected.
Star that does not ask me if I see it?
Fir that would not wish me to uproot it?
Speech that does not ask me if I hear it?
Mysteries expound mysteries.
Steadier than steady, star dazzling me, live and elate,
no need to say, how like some we have known; too like her,
too like him, and a-quiver forever.
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
Today is the birthday of a poet whose observations are keen, clear and precise.
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.
Moore’s work is grouped with poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bishop.
please find out more about Moore:
1.MARIANNE MOORE'S MULTICULTURAL POETRY: A CASE OF RESISTANCE
https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10017/5012/Marianne%20Moore%27s%20Multicultural%20Poetry.%20A%20Case%20of%20Resistance.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
2.Marianne Moore's Precision
http://natalia.cecire.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cecire-moore-article.pdf
3.Marianne Moore reads Bird-Witted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuEkW-1oPk
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