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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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Marianne Craig Moore
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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