175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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