Marianne Moore Quotes and Quotations
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish. Poetry is all nouns and verbs. The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed. When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment. As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. Your thorns are the best part of you. Superior people never make long visits. The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
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