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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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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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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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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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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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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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