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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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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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[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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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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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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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 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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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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