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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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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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I can see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

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

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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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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

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

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

Born: November 15, 1887
Died: February 5, 1972 (aged 84)
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