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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
— Marianne Moore
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
— Marianne Moore
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
— Marianne Moore
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
— Marianne Moore
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.
— Marianne Moore
Discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires ...
— Marianne Moore
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
— Marianne Moore
Yule - Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner - of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
— Marianne Moore
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
— Marianne Moore
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
— Marianne Moore
The cure for loneliness is solitude.
— Marianne Moore
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
— Marianne Moore
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
— Marianne Moore
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
— Donald Hall
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
— Marianne Moore
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
— Marianne Moore
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
— Marianne Moore
The power of the visible is the invisible.
— Marianne Moore
Omissions are not accidents.
— Marianne Moore
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ...
— Marianne Moore
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
— Marianne Moore
All are / naked, none is safe.
— Marianne Moore
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
— Marianne Moore
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
— Marianne Moore
Unconfusion submitsits confusion to proof; it's
not a Herod's oath that cannot change. — Marianne Moore
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
— Marianne Moore
Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
— Marianne Moore
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
— Marianne Moore
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
— Marianne Moore
Concurring hands divideflax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin. — Marianne Moore
The heart that gives, gathers.
— Marianne Moore
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
— Marianne Moore
The mind is an enchanting thing.
— Marianne Moore
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
— Marianne Moore
Poetry...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise — Marianne Moore
Durer would have seen a reason for livingin a town like this — Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
— Marianne Moore
The sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
— Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
— Marianne Moore
We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
— Marianne Moore
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
— Marianne Moore
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
— Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
— Marianne Moore
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
— Marianne Moore
So he who strongly feels, behaves.
— Marianne Moore
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[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. — Marianne Moore
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
— Marianne Moore
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.
— Marianne Moore
Camels are snobbishand sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
— Marianne Moore
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
— Marianne Moore
Victory won't cometo me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
— Marianne Moore
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstoolswhich resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous? — Marianne Moore
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
— Marianne Moore
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
— Marianne Moore
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
— Marianne Moore
Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
— Marianne Moore
That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
— Marianne Moore
Revision is its own reward.
— Marianne Moore
Originality is ... a by-product of sincerity.
— Marianne Moore
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
— Marianne Moore
There never was a war that was not inward.
— Marianne Moore
I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.
— Marianne Moore
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
— Marianne Moore
I must fightTil I have conquered
In myself
what causes war — Marianne Moore
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
— Marianne Moore
Your thorns are the best part of you.
— Marianne Moore
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
— Marianne Moore
The hands are the heart's messengers.
— Marianne Moore
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
— Marianne Moore
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
— Marianne Moore
We prove, we do not explain, our birth,
— Marianne Moore
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
— Marianne Moore
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
— Marianne Moore
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
— Marianne Moore
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ...
— Marianne Moore
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
— Marianne Moore
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
— Marianne Moore
As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
— William Strunk Jr.
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
— Marianne Moore
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
— Marianne Moore