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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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Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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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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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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