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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 Craig Moore
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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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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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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 enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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