Marianne Moore Quotes

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

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability ratherthanan asset - that in view of the fact ...

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

Your thorns are the best part of you.

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

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

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

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

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

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

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

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

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Superior people never make long visits.

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

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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

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

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this ...

Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of p...

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowl...