Marianne Moore

American poet

Lived from: 1887-1972

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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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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  A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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

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  Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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  It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

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  My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

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  Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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  Superior people never make long visits.

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  We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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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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