Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
Marianne Moore
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Flexibility
Motion
Welfare
Skin
Skins
Animal
Beauty
Stunned
More quotes by Marianne Moore
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
Marianne Moore
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
Marianne Moore
Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
Marianne Moore
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
Marianne Moore
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
Marianne Moore
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
Marianne Moore
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
Marianne Moore
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
Marianne Moore
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Marianne Moore
Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
Marianne Moore
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
Marianne Moore
Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
Marianne Moore
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
Marianne Moore
There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore
