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
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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.
people
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
doubt explains psychology
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
deepest feeling feelings itself restraint shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint
anybody books-and-reading everybody
anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell
war inward peace-justice
There never was a war that was not inward.
fabric excitement gravity
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.
trust sickness contagion
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
real garden imagination
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.
believe joy wish
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
imagination poetry proficiency
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.