175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

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.

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.