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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
Essayist
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Marianne Craig Moore
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
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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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... 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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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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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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The mind is an enchanting thing.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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