Tuesday, September 11

It was a matter of taking a liking to things. Things that were in accordance with your taste. I think that was it. And we didn't care how unhomogeneous they might seem. Didn't Aristotle say that it is the mark of a poet to see resemblances between apparently incongruous things? There was any amount of attraction about it.

Marianne Moore, on editing the literary magazine The Dial, The Paris Review Interviews: Women Writers at Work