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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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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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