Quotes by Marianne Moore

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

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poe...”

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

“Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.”

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

“Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individ...”

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

“TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.VICTOR HUGO Of: my crow Pluto, the true Plato, azzurronegro green-blue rainbow Victor Hugo, it is true we kno...”

“TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literaldetrimental as well if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that one can live only on top leaves that ...”

“ROSEMARY Beauty and Beautys son and rosemary Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary ...”

“In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of...”

“You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability ratherthanan asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates formwe are justified in supposingthat you must have brains. For you, a symbol...”

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”

“YuleYul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinnerof fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.”

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

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

“Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.”

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

“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

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