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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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None
Safe

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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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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 one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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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[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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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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