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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.
Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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