Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. Marianne Moore More Quotes by Marianne Moore More Quotes From Marianne Moore he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter. Marianne Moore letters giving I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it Marianne Moore disgusting pretentious poet Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison. Marianne Moore stars tears beauty Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty. Marianne Moore egomania genius blessed Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. Marianne Moore impatience bondage independence Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this. Marianne Moore towns reason life There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious. Marianne Moore pleasure work sometimes ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry. Marianne Moore garden real hands Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me. Marianne Moore dangerous honesty should Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. Marianne Moore missiles capes yogi [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber. Marianne Moore amber use writing If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze. Marianne Moore fleece creatures thinking Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. Marianne Moore yule christmas fire Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. Marianne Moore beast sun men Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go. Marianne Moore baseball exciting writing The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Marianne Moore deepest feeling always silence Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. Marianne Moore nothing everything psychology doubt It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. Marianne Moore back man old-man sea
