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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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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 we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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