Marianne Moore Quotes

To cite passages is to pull one quill from a porcupine.

Subjects choose me… I lie in wait like a leopard on a branch-strained metaphor.

A connoisseur of tame excitement.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

Omissions are not accidents.

I do not write for money or fame… One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensible to one’s happiness to express.