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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

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 heart that gives, gathers.
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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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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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[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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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