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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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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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... 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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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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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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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Omissions are not accidents.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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