More from Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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)
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
