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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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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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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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