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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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Conscious writing can be the death of 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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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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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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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