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nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"Mabove insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "Poetry," Selected Poems (1935).)
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. The Fish (l. 3-7). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. What Are Years? (L. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
What is there like fortitude! What sap went through that little thread to make the cherry red! (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Nevertheless (l. 30-33). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
tell my why the fen appears impassable, (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. I May, I Might, I Must (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).)
Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. The Steeple-Jack (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. A Carriage from Sweden (l. 4-5). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
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 (1887-1972), U.S. poet. The Hero (l. 49-54). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. repr. In Complete Prose (1987). "Comment," no. 86, Dial (New York, April 1929).)
