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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
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Frank
Presence
Honesty

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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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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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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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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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