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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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 weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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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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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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Superior people never make long visits.
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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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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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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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The heart that gives, gathers.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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