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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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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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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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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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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