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Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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