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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
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Giving
Heart
Life
Gathers
Nurse
Abundance
Gives

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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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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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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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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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