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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Plans
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Heart
Men
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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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