QUOTES by Marianne Moore
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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...
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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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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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A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.
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We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
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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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Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward;
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I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.
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I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.
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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.
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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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[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
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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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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
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