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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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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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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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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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