“Your thorns are the best part of you.” ― Marianne Moore

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

 

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

 

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
― Marianne Moore 

 

“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

 

“The hands are the heart's messengers.”
― Marianne Moore 

 

“The heart that gives, gathers. ”
― Marianne Moore 

 

“If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

 

“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

 

“Superior people never make long visits.”
― Marianne Moore

 

“There never was a war that was not inward.”
― Marianne Moore 

 

“Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

 

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
― Marianne Moore 

 

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...
... if you demand on one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, then you are interested in poetry.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

 

“Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems