The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it be an art at all.
‘Impressions and Opinions’ (1891) ‘Mummer-Worship’
1.162 Marianne Moore 1887-1972
O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible.
Felicitous phenomenon!
‘O To Be a Dragon’ (1959)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however,
with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
‘Poetry’ (1935)
Nor till the poets among us can be
‘literalists of
the imagination’—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.
‘Poetry’ (1935)
My father used to say,
‘Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
or the glass flowers at Harvard.’
‘Silence’ (1935)
Nor was he insincere in saying, ‘Make my house your inn.’
Inns are not residences.
‘Silence’ (1935)
1.163 Sturge Moore 1870-1944
Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear
(The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.
‘The Gazelles’
1.164 Thomas Moore 1779-1852
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us
Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
‘The Fudge Family in Paris’ (1818) letter 8, l. 64
For you know, dear—I may, without vanity, hint—
Though an angel should write, still ‘tis devils must print.
‘The Fudges in England’ (1835) letter 3, l. 64