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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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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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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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[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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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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