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
guilt safe naked
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
animal years steps
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
temptation blunders appraisal
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.
time thinking wonder
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
wings mind sun
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
artist doubt technique
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
beauty dust everlasting
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
birth prove
We prove, we do not explain, our birth,
political psychology doubt
Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
ego egotism sagacity
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
writing modest undertakings
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
work sometimes pleasure
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
marriage stars men
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
imagination towers evanescence
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.