175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

The heart that gives, gathers.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

There never was a war that was not inward.