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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

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 Craig Moore
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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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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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[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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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