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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

Marianne Moore

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore

I can see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

Marianne Moore

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Marianne Moore

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Marianne Moore

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Marianne Moore

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Marianne Moore

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

Marianne Moore