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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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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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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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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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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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