| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40586 |
| QUOTATION: | Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marianne Moore (18871972), U.S. poet. first published in Dial, no. 81 (New York, Aug. 1926). Comment, Complete Prose (1987). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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