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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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Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Frank
Presence
Honesty

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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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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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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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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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[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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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