List of Marianne Moore Quotes

Fanaticism? No. Writing Is Exciting And Baseball Is Like Writing. You Can Never Tell With Either How It Will Go.

Assign Yogi Berra To Cape Canaveral; He Could Handle Any Missile.

O To Be A Dragon, A Symbol Of The Power Of Heaven-of Silk-worm Size Or Immense; At Times Invisible. Felicitous Phenomenon!

They Fought The Enemy, We Fight Fat Living And Self-pity. Shine, O Shine, Unfalsifying Sun, On This Sick Scene.

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

Yule—yul Log For The Christmas-fire Tale-spinner—of Fairy Tales That Can Come True: Yul Brynner.

What I Write Could Only Be Called Poetry Because There Is No Other Category To Put It.

He Who Gives Quickly Gives Twice / In Nothing So Much As In A Letter.

Maine Should Be Pleased That Its Animal Is Not A Waverer, And Rather Than Fight, Lets The Primed Quill Fall. Shallow Oppressor, Intruder, Insister, You Have Found A Resister.

Honesty - However Dangerous - Should Be As Valuable As Radium It Seems To Me.

A Symbol From The First, Of Mastery, Experiments Such As Hippocrates Made And Substituted For Vague Speculation Stayed The Ravages Of Plague.