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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
Marianne Moore
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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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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There never was a war that was not inward.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Marianne Moore
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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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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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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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 Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
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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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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