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The heart that gives, gathers.
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 Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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 power of the visible is the invisible.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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