Marianne Moore

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.