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
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.
writing pleasing-others honest
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
personality thorns
Your thorns are the best part of you.
omission accidents
Omissions are not accidents.
relationship passion people
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
writing conscious
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
reading people results
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
writing desire burning
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
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.
eye hair hands
Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise