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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
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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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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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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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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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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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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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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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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