The Past Is The Present
Marianne Moore
If external action is effete and rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse. He said—and I think I repeat his exact words— “Hebrew poetry is prose with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form.
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