Marianne Moore cytaty

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

“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.”

“In Homer, existence
is flawed; transcendence, conditional;
' the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual”

“The problems is mastered — insupportably
tiring when it was impending.
Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.”

“Whatever it is.. poem.. play, story.. it must hold attention.”

“My father used to say "Superior people never make long visits."”

“I don't consider In Distrust of Merits a poem. It's just a burst of feelings. It's emotion recorded, a 'haphazard form ' a protest.”

“that which is impossible to force, it is impossible
to hinder.”

“Consume hostility;
employ your weapon in this meeting-place of surging enmity!
Insurgent feet shall not outrun
multiplied flames, O Sun.”

“One may be pardoned, yes I know
one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)”

“Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.”

“Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.”