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Superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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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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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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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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