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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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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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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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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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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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 heart that gives, gathers.
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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