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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

~Marianne Moore

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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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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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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 15th, 1887

Died: February 5th, 1972

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