Marianne Moore Quotes

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.