Best Quotes by Marianne Moore (Top 10)

  1. Your thorns are the best part of you.
  2. The hands are the heart's messengers.
  3. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
  4. Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
  5. The heart that gives, gathers.
  6. Superior people never make long visits.
  7. Omissions are not accidents.
  8. There never was a war that was not inward.
  9. A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
  10. The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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