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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Marianne Moore
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.
Marianne Moore
The hands are the heart's messengers.
Marianne Moore
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Marianne Moore
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
Marianne Moore
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.
Marianne Moore
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
Marianne Moore
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
Marianne Moore
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
Marianne Moore
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
Marianne Moore
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.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
[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.
Marianne Moore
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
Marianne Moore
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
Marianne Moore
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
Marianne Moore
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
Marianne Moore
