Marianne Moore - The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

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It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Marianne Moore

The catnip that art is, or ignis fatuus, or drop on the cactus, does seem worth the martyrdom of pursuit.

Marianne Moore

Honesty — however dangerous — should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

Marianne Moore