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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

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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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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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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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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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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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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... 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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[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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