Baseball Quote by Marianne Moore

“Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.”

Marianne Moore

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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

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

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“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, “In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the…

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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

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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…

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The hands are the heart's messengers.

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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

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Revision is its own reward.

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