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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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Marianne Craig Moore
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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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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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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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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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... 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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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