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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 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] 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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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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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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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