Marianne Moore

"Integrity cannot be purchased."

"Diversity and consonance in composition are not opposed."

"The squirrel has reserves that suggest continuance."

"Verbosity leads to unclear language."

"To explain grace requires a special hand."

"Senses should be appealed to in the order of importance."

"A thing of beauty is a thing of strength."

"Reticence is a virtue."

"The intellect needs to master the passions."

"Artifice must serve truth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without renouncing ostentation."

"The page must be visual before it is verbal."

"Cats, dogs, horses and birds are necessary to the human spirit."

"We must have the courage of our convictions."

"Brevity is a form of respect for the reader."

"Nothing is so hard as to understand the simple."

"Abundance is not a function of accumulation."

"The thing that matters most cannot be taught."

"Fidelity to feeling is the first law."

"Speech should not be used lightly."

"Intelligence is made viable by attention."

"The depths of feeling must be protected by restraint."

"Exactitude is a form of courtesy."

"The ordinary becomes extraordinary through careful observation."

"Denial is not the same as invisibility."

"One's natural instinct is to protect what matters."

"Writing is the rigorous honesty of attention."

"Resistance strengthens what it opposes."

"The visible world must inform the invisible world of meaning."

"Expertise walks a narrow line."