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Quote by Marianne Moore

“Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!”

Quote by Marianne Moore

Book:Complete Poems

Work

This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career. more

Author

American poet known for her unique modernist style and profound philosophical insights. Her poetry is concise and insightful, often exploring themes of nature, art, and the human condition. more

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“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.”

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Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”

Looks Sea Return Obvious Characteristics Repression Collectors

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise”

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Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”

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Source: Complete Poems

“To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.”

Men Book Soul Struggle Gone Mystery Flower Seeds Every Man

Book:Introductions and Reviews

Source: Introductions and Reviews

“O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.”

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“I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.”

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“There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.”

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Book:Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

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“There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.”

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