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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
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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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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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... 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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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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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.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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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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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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