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

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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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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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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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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The heart that gives, gathers.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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 is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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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 hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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