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
resistance wool assertiveness
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
doubt explains psychology
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
people
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
omission accidents
Omissions are not accidents.
unfair hard
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
confusion proof submit
Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
reading perfect genuine
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
time thinking wonder
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
foxes arctic
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
poetic primal
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
creative conquer detachment
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
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