Quotes by Marianne Moore

“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”

“I tend to write in patterned arrangement with rhymes.. I try to secure an effect of flowing continuity and the correspondence between verse and music.”

“I look upon verse as an exercise in composition.”

“Whatever it is.. poem.. play, story..it must hold attention.”

“Yes, I believe in prayer, as a mystery which can endow one with more power perhaps than any other spiritual mystery, yet a mystery that cannot be exposited to a point where it is not a mystery.”

“One may be pardoned, yes I know one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)”

“Blessed the man whose faith is differentfrom possessiveness - of a kind not framed by 'things which do appear' ( Hebrews 11:3)”

“There is hate's crown beneath which all is death; there's love without which noneis king.”

“There never was a war that wasnot inward; I must fight till I conquered in myself whatcauses war”

“In Homer, existenceis flawed; transcendence, conditional; ' the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual',”

“Tell me, Tell me where might there be a refuge for mefrom egocentricityand its propensity to bisect, mis-state, misunderstandand obliterate continuity?”

“O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!”