More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth. — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
![“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature…” quote by Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/820/marianne-moore-3315_grave_as-for-a-grave-it-has-a-significance-apa_3194459.jpg)