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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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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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