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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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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 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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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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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 enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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