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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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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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... 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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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