Marianne Moore1887–1972Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- “In Distrust of Merits” (1944)
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003), “Silence”A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)
