We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
Marianne Moore[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
Marianne MooreOne writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Marianne Moore