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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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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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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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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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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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