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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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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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 Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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.
Marianne Moore
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
Marianne Moore
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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