"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore (15 November 1887 β 5 February 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. For her Collected Poems (1951), she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.
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