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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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There never was a war that was not inward.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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