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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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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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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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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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