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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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[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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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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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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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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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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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