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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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