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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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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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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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