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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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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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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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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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