175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

Yule – Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner – of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, “Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.”

You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief.

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

We don’t like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard.”

Not till the poets among us can be “literalists of the imagination”-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” shall we have it.