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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
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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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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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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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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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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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