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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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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 mind is an enchanting thing.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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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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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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[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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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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