"A little while later I met Moore again when she visited Cambridge for a conference trumped up by the Summer School. Every summer Harvard assembled eminences, and in 1956 the subject was the American literary magazine. The ex-editor of The Dial attended, together with Allen Tate, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Hugh Kenner, and R. P. Blackmur. When I watched Moore meander among these Mount Rushmores of the literary moment, I realized: They are all afraid of her. She is five foot three and a half inches tall, weighs less than a hundred pounds, talks in a low mumble while looking at the floor, continually disparages herself while praising others - and they are all terrified of her."
--Donald Hall, Their Ancient Glittering Eyes
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