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The mind is an enchanting thi...

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 140 quotes

There is a great amount of po...

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

The sweet air coming into you...

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 140 quotes

We are what we were at birth,...

We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Poetry is a peerless proficie...

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

repression, however, is not t...

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

War is pillage versus resista...

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

The power of the visible is t...

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Life is energy, and energy is...

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Below the incandescent stars ...

Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Only imagination that towers ...

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

What is our innocence, What i...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Psychology, which explains ev...

Psychology, which explains everything,
Explains nothing,
And we are still in doubt.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

There never was a war that wa...

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

My father used to say, "Super...

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 140 quotes

The cynics in life are the pe...

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 140 quotes

One writes because one has a ...

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

If technique is of no interes...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Poetry is the art of creating...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

When one cannot appraise out ...

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

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