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

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
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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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? 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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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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