Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moorewas an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 November 1887
CityKirkwood, MO
CountryUnited States of America
time thinking wonder
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
wings mind sun
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
artist doubt technique
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
beauty dust everlasting
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
birth prove
We prove, we do not explain, our birth,
political psychology doubt
Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
ego egotism sagacity
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
writing modest undertakings
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
work sometimes pleasure
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
marriage stars men
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
imagination towers evanescence
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
always-trying people want
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
belief made captives
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
energy excess common
Excess is the common substitute for energy.