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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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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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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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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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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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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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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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