30 ordspråk av Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
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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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
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Superior people never make long visits
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
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There never was a war that was not inward.
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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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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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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief
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