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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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