Quotes by : Marianne Moore

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

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

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability ratherthanan asset - that in view of the fact that....

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detrimental....

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born....