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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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 we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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