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
temptation blunders appraisal
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.
imagination poetry proficiency
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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.
writing modest undertakings
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
ego egotism sagacity
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
political psychology doubt
Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
birth prove
We prove, we do not explain, our birth,
fabric excitement gravity
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.
heart men males
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
impossible force hinder
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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.
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
trust sickness contagion
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.