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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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... 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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[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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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 heart that gives, gathers.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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