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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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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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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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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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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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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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