# Quote — Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore

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

- Author: [Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore.md)
- Book: [The Poems of Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore.md)
- Page: 187
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Moore#The_Poems_of_Marianne_Moore_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/hes-not-out

## More from this book

> We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained
>
> in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic:
>
> Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic,
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> perhaps? Yes; what if the time should come
>
> when no one will fight for anything
>
> 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)