Marianne Moore Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Marianne Moore:

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#b05af679

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#da182f79

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#775793b4

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#0842d281

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#2f5a759c

Superior people never make long visits.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#63a8f47d

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#c3de3550

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#e5b52988

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#3fa21167

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#5b71f08c

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#814d56af

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.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#2869d3dd

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#85015850

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#c2cad13c

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#7b149915

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#686eeb6e

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#0eb10064

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#8a6c94e5

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#f6bac4e4

There never was a war that was not inward.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#695edd28

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
~Marianne Moore


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#b796a531

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.
~Marianne Moore


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/marianne-moore-quotes/#bb5bbb20

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