Marianne MooreThinkers

Baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Elizabeth Bishop is spectacular in being unspectacular. Why has no one ever thought of this, one asks oneself; why not be accurate and modest.

Freedom is impossible until you're captive by supreme belief.

Originality is, in any case, a by-product of sincerity.

A Poem is a text in which the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind

Restraint is deeper still than silence — The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Trust is a contagion — just as contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.