“It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.” ThinkingNeedsMeanArtHandsArtistOrderCoursesReadingEasyToo MuchPracticalsResistanceWorks Of ArtLeisureDeprivationPoignant Book:The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore Source: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
“Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.” HandsWaterWorkSkinsWeatherDividesLeatherFlax Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“... 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.” IfsRealHandsMaterialsDemandGardenGenuineImaginaryRaw MaterialsToadsRawness Book:Observations: Poems Source: Observations: Poems
“Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise” HandsEyeHairGenuine Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
