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Marianne Moore

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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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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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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1887-1972, US poet and editor

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