175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

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

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth,

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.