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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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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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