It was on February 5, 1972, that we lost Marianne Moore. Her poem "Silence," about house guests who do not need to be entertained, contains a nice picture of a cat, and I excerpt:
...
"Superior people never ...
have to be shown ...
the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self-reliant like the cat -
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth-
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
...
...
"Superior people never ...
have to be shown ...
the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self-reliant like the cat -
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth-
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
...
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