Marianne Moore: Trending quotes

“Blessed the man whose faith is different
from possessiveness - of a kind not framed by 'things which do appear”

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

“… we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”

“The hands are the heart's messengers.”

“The heart that gives, gathers.”

“If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.”

“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”

“There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war”

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

“Omissions are not accidents.”

“What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.”

“Poetry is a magic of pauses … not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.”

“Hebrew poetry is,
prose with a sort of heightened consciousness' Ecstasy
affords
the occasion expediency, determines the form”

“He's not out
seeing a sight but the rock
crystal thing to see — the startling El Greco
brimming with inner light — that
covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know
as the hero.”

“We Call Them the Brave
who likely were reluctant to be brave.”

“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”

“Yes, I believe in prayer, as a mystery which can endow one with more power perhaps than any other spiritual mystery, yet a mystery that cannot be exposited to a point where it is not a mystery.”

“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.”