175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths...

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use...

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

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express...

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.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I’m dissatisfied, I’m Irish.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal’s skin or its flexibility in motion?