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

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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 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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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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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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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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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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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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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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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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