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
human-nature indecision middle
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
butterfly vain congruence
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
life towns reason
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
independence bondage impatience
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
fear soul each-day
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."
father flower glasses
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
strong overcoming weak
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
capes yogi handle
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
yule fire fairy-tale
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
men sun beast
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
writing men sound
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
inspirational long people
Superior people never make long visits.
writing categories poetry-is
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
baseball writing exciting
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go...