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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 submits
its 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

You are not male or female, but a plan
deep-set within the heart of man. — 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

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years. — Marianne Moore

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it — Marianne Moore

Concurring hands divide
flax 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

At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home. — 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 living
in 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

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

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. — 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

[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry]
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. — Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. — Marianne Moore

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — 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 snobbish
and 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 come
to 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 toadstools
which 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

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

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people. — Marianne Moore

The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews! — Marianne Moore

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

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. — Marianne Moore

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art. — Marianne Moore

I must fight
Til I have conquered
In myself
what causes war — Marianne Moore

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. — 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

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. — 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

He who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter. — Marianne Moore

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ... — Marianne Moore

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ... — 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 keeps
adjusting 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