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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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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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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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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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