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• One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

  Marianne Moore

  Natural, Clear, Reticence

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

  Marianne Moore

  Forgiveness, Hate

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

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• In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

  Marianne Moore

  Fabric, Excitement, Gravity

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• Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Modest, Undertakings

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

  Marianne Moore

  Imagination, Poetry, Proficiency

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

  Marianne Moore

  Heart, Men, Males

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• To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.

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  Foxes, Arctic

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.193, Penguin

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Butterfly, Vain, Congruence

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.229, Univ of California Press

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• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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  Independence, Impatience, Bondage

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.80, Macmillan

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Wings, Mind, Sun

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Calling, Reason

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Looks

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.58, Macmillan

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• When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

  Marianne Moore

  Honesty, Compliment, Frank

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.94, Univ of California Press

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• You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

  Marianne Moore

  Belief, Made, Captives

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.113, Penguin

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• Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

  Marianne Moore

  Blessed, Genius, Egomania

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.173, Penguin

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• There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Unconscious, Amount

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.38, Penguin

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• I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

  Marianne Moore

  Believe, Fruit, Diligence

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

  Marianne Moore

  Impossible, Force, Hinder

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• Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

  Marianne Moore

  Wool, Resistance, Assertiveness

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.102, Penguin

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• As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

  Marianne Moore

  Trust, Sickness, Contagion

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

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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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  Writing, Desire, Burning

  Marianne Moore (1958). “Idiosyncrasy & Technique”

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• ... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

  Marianne Moore

  Admire

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.28, Macmillan

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• I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

  Marianne Moore

  Procedures, Chromosomes, Plans

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• The mind is an enchanting thing.

  Marianne Moore

  Mind, Enchanting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin

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• When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Thinking, Artificial

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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