“Consume hostility;
employ your weapon in this meeting-place of surging enmity!
Insurgent feet shall not outrun
multiplied flames, O Sun.”

— Marianne Moore

"Sun" from Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
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American poet and writer 1887–1972

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