"You Say You Said" by Marianne Moore

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( September 22, 2019 [You Say You Said]( [Marianne Moore]( “Few words are best.” Not here. Discretion has been abandoned in this part of the world too lately For it to be admired. Disgust for it is like the Equinox—all things in One. Disgust is No psychologist and has not opportunity to be a hypocrite. It says to the saw-toothed bayonet and to the cue Of blood behind the sub- Marine—to the Poisoned comb, to the Kaiser of Germany and to the intolerant gateman at the exit from the eastbound ex- press: “I hate You less than you must hate Yourselves: You have Accoutred me. ‘Without enemies one’s courage flags.’ Your error has been timed To aid me, I am in debt to you for you have primed Me against subterfuge.” [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 22, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. ["You Say You Said" by Marianne Moore]( About This Poem “You Say You Said” was published in Vol.5, No. 8 of The Little Review, December 1918. Marianne Moore was born on November 15, 1887, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her collections include The Pangolin and Other Verse (Brendin Publishing, 1936) and Poems (The Egoist Press, 1921). She died in New York City on February 5, 1972. [more-at-poets]( [New Collected Poems]( Poetry by Moore [New Collected Poems]( (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) “Lights Out” by Henry van Dyke [read-more]( “Catastrophe Theory III” Mary Jo Bang [read-more]( “Thanks” by Yusef Komunyakaa [read-more]( September Guest Editor: Eduardo C. Corral Thanks to [Eduardo C. Corral](, author of Guillotine, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2020, who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a [Q&A with Corral]( about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our [guest editors for the year.]( Your Support Makes Poem-a-Day Possible Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today’s poets each weekday morning. This free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on the weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. [make a one-time donation]( [illustration]( [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038