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Your thorns are the best part of you.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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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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