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Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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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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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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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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 hands are the heart's messengers.
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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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