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not in the days of Adam and Eve but when Adam
  was alone; when there was no smoke and color was
fine, not with the refinement of
  of early civilization art but by virtue
of its originality, with nothing to modify it but the
mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation
  of the perpendicular, plain to see and
to account for: it is no
  longer that; nor did the blue red yellow band
of incandescence that was color, keep its stripe: it also is one of
those things into which much that is peculiar can be
  read; complexity is not a crime but carry
it to the point of murkiness
  and nothing is plain. Complexity,
moreover, that has been committed to darkness, instead of
granting itself to be the pestilence that it is, moves all a-
  bout as if to bewilder with the dismal
fallacy that insistence
  is the measure of achievement and that all
truth must be dark. Principally throat, sophistication is as it al-
ways has been at the antipodes from the init-
  ial great truths. "Part of it was crawling, part of it
was about to crawl, the rest
  was torpid in its lair." In the short legged, fit-
ful advance, the gurgling and all the minutiae -- we have the classic
multitude of feet. To what purpose! Truth is no Apollo
  Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes.
Know that it will be there when it says:
  "I shall be there when the wave has gone by."
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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

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