Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
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

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore