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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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