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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/when-one-cannot-appraise-out-of-one-s-own-experience-the-temptation/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

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## More by Marianne Moore

> [When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/when-one-is-frank-one-s-very-presence-is-a-compliment/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/one-writes-because-one-has-a-burning-desire-to-objectify-what-it-is/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/victory-won-t-come-to-me-unless-i-go-to-it-a-grape-tendril-ties-a/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/the-deepest-feeling-always-shows-itself-in-silence-not-in-silence-but/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/do-the-poet-and-scientist-not-work-analogously-both-are-willing-to/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/camels-are-snobbish-and-sheep-unintelligent-water-buffaloes/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/when-one-cannot-appraise-out-of-one-s-own-experience-the-temptation/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [The hands are the heart's messengers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/the-hands-are-the-heart-s-messengers/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/i-believe-verbal-felicity-is-the-fruit-of-ardor-of-diligence-and-of/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/conscious-writing-can-be-the-death-of-poetry/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/only-imagination-that-towers-can-reproduce-evanescence-and-render/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [Revision is its own reward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/revision-is-its-own-reward/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/in-a-poem-the-excitement-has-to-maintain-itself-i-am-governed-by-the/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [All are / naked, none is safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/all-are-naked-none-is-safe/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

> [It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/it-is-human-nature-to-stand-in-the-middle-of-a-thing/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

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