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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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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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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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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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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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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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