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Marianne Moore Quotes

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

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

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

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore

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

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

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

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

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore

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

Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore

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

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Marianne Moore

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Marianne Moore

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore

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

Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1887-11-15
Year of Death:
1972
Nationality:
American