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The power of the visible is the invisible.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
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Marianne Craig Moore
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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