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.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.