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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

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
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Marianne Craig Moore
Honesty
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Presence

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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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