“You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it!”

—  Marianne Moore

Quoted by Malvina Hoffman in her Memoir - Yesterday is Tomorrow 1961

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American poet and writer 1887–1972

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