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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

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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
Sun
Subdivided
Thing
Glaze
Mind
Enchanting
Like
Legion
Enchanted
Wing
Till
Wings

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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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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 enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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