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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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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
Moon
Mankind
Vileness
Night
Splendor
Cannot
Aside
Men
Beast
Excellence
Sun

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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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... 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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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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The heart that gives, gathers.
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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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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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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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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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