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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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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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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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