Art is unfortunate.
What intelligence vibrates in the sounds, the rhythms, the pauses, in all of Miss Moore's poems, often, is enough to give the reader great pleasure, since it is a tone of much wit and precision and intelligence, the voice of a person of good taste and good sense and good will, of a genuinely human being. From Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell. Copyright 1953 by Randall Jarrell.