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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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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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[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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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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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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[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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Superior people never make long visits.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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