Marianne Moore Quotes - Page 5

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

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

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

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.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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

the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.

the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.