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

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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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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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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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