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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
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Marianne Craig Moore
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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