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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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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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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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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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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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... 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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