Marianne Moore Quotes

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore

Suffering, Sarcasm

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore

Feeling, Silence, Shows

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore

Mark, Impatience, Bondage

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore

Trust, Makes, Sickness

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore

Poetry, Art, Real

Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore

Long, Superior, Visits

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore

Hard, Himself, Unfair

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore

Others, Honest, Sure

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore

Beauty, Time, Dust

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore

Work, Poetry, Put

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore

Doubt, Artist, Writer

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Marianne Moore

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore

Excitement, Gravity, Sentence

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore

Nature, Human, Stand

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Marianne Moore

Through, Cannot, Old

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore

Father, Long, Used

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore

Nothing, Everything, Doubt

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore

Passion, Disease, Setting

There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore

Experience, Cannot, Seems

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore

Made, Free, Until

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 15, 1887

Died: February 5, 1972

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