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
always-trying people want
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
belief made captives
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
energy excess common
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
sweet air water
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
animal skins welfare
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poet pretentious disgusting
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
thinking creatures ifs
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
fighting self sick
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
real garden hands
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
admire
... we do not admire what we cannot understand.
self realization doe
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
heart hands messengers
The hands are the heart's messengers.
sarcastic sarcasm suffering
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.