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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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The heart that gives, gathers.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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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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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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