Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. Marianne Moore More Quotes by Marianne Moore More Quotes From Marianne Moore So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths. Marianne Moore unicorn disappear experts that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder. Marianne Moore hinder force impossible You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man. Marianne Moore males heart men It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. Marianne Moore middle indecision human-nature The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. Marianne Moore realization self doe 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. Marianne Moore crosses trying thinking There never was a war that was not inward. Marianne Moore peace-justice inward war Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. Marianne Moore primal poetic Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools Marianne Moore mushrooms poison doe The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul." Marianne Moore done soul fear Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it. Marianne Moore garden real imagination There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Marianne Moore amount unconscious poetry The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled Marianne Moore shoes dancing white We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained. Marianne Moore magic black heaven the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still Marianne Moore groups eye mouths A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. Marianne Moore sound writing men Writing is an undertaking for the modest. Marianne Moore undertakings modest writing I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time. Marianne Moore wonder time thinking O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! Marianne Moore dragons power heaven Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness. Marianne Moore marriage stars men
