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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
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Impatience
Bondage
Independence
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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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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.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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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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