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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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Safe

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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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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 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 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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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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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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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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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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