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Sun and moon and day and nigh...

Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

The self does not realize its...

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

O to be a dragon, a symbol of...

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 140 quotes

What I write could only be ca...

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

I am hard to disgust, but a p...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

The prey of fear, he, always ...

The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

If we can't be cordial to the...

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

I wonder what Adam and Eve th...

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

he who gives quickly gives tw...

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

the ocean, under the pulsatio...

the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Men are monopolists of "stars...

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

One must be as clear as one's...

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Among animals, one has a sens...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

... imaginary gardens with re...

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Wolf's wool is the best of wo...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Which of us has not been stun...

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Poetry, that is to say the po...

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

There is no pleasure subtler ...

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

Of the crow-blue mussel shell...

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

A man is a writer if all his ...

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

Marianne Moore 140 quotes

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