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• We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.

  Marianne Moore

  Brave, Be Brave, Reluctant

  Marianne Moore (2017). “New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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

  Marianne Moore

  Impossible, Force, Hinder

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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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• 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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• We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

  Marianne Moore

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Suffering

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

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• In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

  Marianne Moore

  Mind, Ears, Should

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• Excess is the common substitute for energy.

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  Energy, Excess, Common

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

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Always Trying, People, Done

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

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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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• Revision is its own reward.

  Marianne Moore

  Revision, Rewards

  Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore (1954). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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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 enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

  Marianne Moore

  Forgiveness, Hate

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

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

  Marianne Moore

  Independence, Impatience, Bondage

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

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

  Marianne Moore

  Foxes, Arctic

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

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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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• Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

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  Poetic, Primal

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

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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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• Psychology, which explains everything,
  Explains nothing,
  And we are still in doubt.

  Marianne Moore

  Political, Psychology, Doubt

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.62, Penguin

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

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  Art, Thinking, Artificial

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

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

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  Trust, Sickness, Contagion

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

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• I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

  Marianne Moore

  Dissatisfied, Nationalism

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.114, 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.

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  Fabric, Excitement, Gravity

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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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