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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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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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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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