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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
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Marianne Craig Moore
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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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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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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