Quotes by : Marianne Moore

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry....

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

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR....

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

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

Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

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

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

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.