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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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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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... 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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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[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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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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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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