If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Marianne Moore
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Marianne Moore
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.