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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
Honesty
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Frank
Presence

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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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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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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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[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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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