I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things. (Marianne Moore)

I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.

Marianne Moore

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