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Marianne Moore Inspirational Quotes (69)

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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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