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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.
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 Craig Moore
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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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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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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
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All are / naked, none is safe.
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