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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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
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Marianne Craig Moore
Independence
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Impatience
Bondage

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