Marianne Moore quotes

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What is
there in being able
...
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious
fastidiousness.
I have seen this swan and
I have seen you; I have seen ambition without
understanding in a variety of forms.
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
With its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral,
with voices--one voice perhaps, echoing through
...
the East with its snails, its emotional
...
the
criterion of suitability and convenience:
tell my why the fen
appears impassable,
Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.
Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron,
iron is iron till it is rust.
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