# Marianne Moore

- Quotes: 17
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore

## Books

- [The Poems of Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore.md) — 17 quotes

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> We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained
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> in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic:
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> Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic,
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> None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/we-are-what.md)

> We Call Them the Brave
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> who likely were reluctant to be brave.

p. 280 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/we-call-them.md)

> What of it? We call them brave
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> perhaps? Yes; what if the time should come
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> when no one will fight for anything
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> and there's nothing of worth to save.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/what-of-it-we-call.md)

> Maine should be pleased that its animal
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> is not a waverer, and rather
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> than fight, lets the primed quill fall.
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> Shallow oppressor, intruder,
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> insister, you have found a resister.

p. 282 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/maine-should-be-pleased.md)

> The problems is mastered — insupportably
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> tiring when it was impending.
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> Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.

p. 335 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/the-problems-is-mastered.md)

> Some speak of things we know, as new;
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> And you, of things unknown as things forgot.

p. 279 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/some-speak-of-things.md)

> Staff and effigy of the animal
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> which by shedding its skin
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> is a sign of renewal —
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> the symbol of medicine.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/staff-and-effigy.md)

> A symbol from the first, of mastery,
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> experiments such as Hippocrates made
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> and substituted for vague
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> speculation stayed
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> the ravages of plague.

p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/a-symbol-from.md)

> Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
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> One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."

p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/love-ah-love.md)

> So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear
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> but never caught,
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> the unicorn has been preserved
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> by an unmatched device
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> wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ...

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/so-wary-as-to-disappear.md)

> that which is impossible to force, it is impossible
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> to hinder.

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/that-which-is-impossible.md)

> He's not out
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> seeing a sight but the rock
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> crystal thing to see — the startling El Greco
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> brimming with inner light — that
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> covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know
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> as the hero.

p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/hes-not-out.md)