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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
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Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Frank

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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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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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[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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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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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