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Marianne Moore Inspirational Quotes (69)

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Omissions are not accidents.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.
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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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