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Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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