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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
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Marianne Craig Moore
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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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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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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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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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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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