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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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Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Presence
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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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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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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