Marianne Moore Quotes

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• We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
• Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
• The power of the visible is the invisible.
• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
• As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
• A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
• War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
• 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.
• My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
• 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…
• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
• Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
• The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
• Excess is the common substitute for energy.
• I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
• 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…

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