All are
naked, none is safe.
--Marianne Moore
Among animals, one has a sense of humor.
--Marianne Moore
Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.
--Marianne Moore
Blessed the geniuses who know
that egomania is not a duty.
--Marianne Moore
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
--Marianne Moore
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
--Marianne Moore
Honesty- however dangerous- should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
--Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence,not of bondage.
--Marianne Moore
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
--Marianne Moore
Omissions are not accidents.
--Marianne Moore
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
--Marianne Moore
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
--Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
--Marianne Moore
Psychology, which explains everything,
Explains nothing,
And we are still in doubt.
--Marianne Moore
Revision is its own reward.
--Marianne Moore
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
--Marianne Moore
The heart that gives, gathers.
--Marianne Moore
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
--Marianne Moore
The power of the visible is the invisible.
--Marianne Moore
We do not admire what we cannot understand.
--Marianne Moore
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
--Marianne Moore
Your thorns are the best part of you.
--Marianne Moore
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