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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!

Marianne Moore

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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
Night
Vileness
Cannot
Splendor
Men
Aside
Beast
Excellence
Sun
Moon
Mankind

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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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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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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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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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