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
Marianne Moore quotes about
honesty should dangerous
Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...
naked safe vulnerability
All are / naked, none is safe.
work hands weather
Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
mind ears should
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
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?
sea return looks
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
sheep water camels
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
blue crow ashes
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
procedures chromosomes plans
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
revision rewards
Revision is its own reward.
attitude self defense
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
mind enchanting
The mind is an enchanting thing.
time use interruptions
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ...