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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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All are / naked, none is safe.
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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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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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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