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Inspirational Quotes by Marianne Moore
- The power of the visible is the invisible.
- Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
- A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
- Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
- 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…
- There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
- As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
- 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.
- Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
- Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
- We prove, we do not explain, our birth,
- Omissions are not accidents.
- I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
- I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
- Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- Superior people never make long visits.
- Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
- There never was a war that was not inward.
- Your thorns are the best part of you.
- The hands are the heart's messengers.
- ... 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
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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