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

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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
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Frank

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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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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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