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“Staff and effigy of the animal
which by shedding its skin
is a sign of renewal —
the symbol of medicine.”

"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

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

Hebrews 11:3
Blessed be the Man
Poetry

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

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

Source: Complete Poems

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

"Silence"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“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.”

Source: Complete Poems

“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”

Source: Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

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

In Distrust of Merits
Poetry

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

Source: Complete Poems

“Omissions are not accidents.”

The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967), Author's note, p. vi

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

Interview with Donald Hall in November 1960, pub.'Paris Review' The Art of Poetry, no 26 (1961)

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

Poetry and Criticism - American Peoples Encyclopedia , Groller , New York 1965

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

The Past is the Present
Collected Poems (1951)

“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.”

"The Hero"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

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

"We Call Them the Brave" (the title of this poem is also obviously meant to be read as its first line, though set apart)
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

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

"Comment" in The Dial, No. 86 (April 1929)

“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.”

I Believe in Prayer - - How Prayer helps me The Dial Press 1955
Prose

“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.”

"The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)