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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
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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