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Famous Marianne Moore Quotes
“All are / naked, none is safe.”
“I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.”
“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!”
“At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.”
“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
“There never was a war that was not inward.”
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
“The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.”
“... we do not admire what we cannot understand.”
“If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.”
“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”
“Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?”
“We are suffering from too much sarcasm.”
“The power of the visible is the invisible.”
“It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.”
“A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.”
“Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.”
“Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.”
“Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.”
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
“The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.”