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
trust sickness contagion
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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.
belief made captives
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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.
experts unicorn disappear
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ...
deepest feeling feelings itself restraint shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint