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Excess is the common substitute for energy.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
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Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Excess
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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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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