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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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 mind is an enchanting thing.
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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