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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Comes
Extinguished
Soul
Anew
Done
Dusk
Work
Partly
Steadies
Always
Prey
Alternating
Sun
Curtailed
Says
Thwarted
Fear
Blaze

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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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