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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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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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