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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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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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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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Omissions are not accidents.
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
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The power of the visible is the invisible.
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