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Marianne Moore MARIANNE MOORE
The Art of Poetry No. 4
Interviewed by Donald Hall
Issue 26, Summer-Fall 1961
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INTERVIEWER
Do you have in your own work any favorites and unfavorites?

MOORE
Indeed, I do. I think the most difficult thing for me is to be satisfactorily lucid, yet have enough implication in it to suit myself. That's a problem. And I don't approve of my "enigmas," or as somebody said, "the not ungreen grass." I said to my mother one time, "How did you ever permit me to let this be printed?" And she said, "You didn't ask my advice."
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