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Famous Marianne Moore Quotes
“Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.”
“Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.”
“Excess is the common substitute for energy.”
“I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.”
“Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.”
“What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.”
“We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.”
“Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.”
“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
“There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.”
“As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.”
“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
“When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.”
“You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.”
“Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.”
“Writing is an undertaking for the modest.”
“Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.”
“Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.”