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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.
Quote by -Marianne Moore
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
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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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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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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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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...
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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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Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
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Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
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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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I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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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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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
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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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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
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Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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