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

Marianne Moore

Hebrews 11:3
Blessed be the Man
Poetry

Faith , Appearance

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

Marianne Moore

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

“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.”

Marianne Moore

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

Light

“Poetry I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle,
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it
one discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.”

Marianne Moore

Poetry
Collected Poems (1951)

Reading , Perfection

“I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.”

Marianne Moore

Essay - 1957 Subject, Predicate, Object

Books , Dogs , Thinking , Effort

“Some speak of things we know, as new;
And you, of things unknown as things forgot.”

Marianne Moore

"Quoting an Also Private Thought" (this poem is a very slight reworking of an earlier poem "As Has Been Said")
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)