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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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Missouri
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Marianne Craig Moore
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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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.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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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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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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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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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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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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