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
firsts mastery made
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.
ties victory knots
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
shoes white dancing
The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
mushrooms doe poison
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
revision rewards
Revision is its own reward.
time use interruptions
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ...
brave be-brave reluctant
We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
human-nature indecision middle
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
butterfly vain congruence
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
capes yogi handle
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
marriage stars men
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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.
beauty dust everlasting
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
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.