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
ocean sea bells
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
men moon night
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!
ties victory knots
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
attitude self defense
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
home brooklyn events
At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.
blue crow ashes
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
sheep water camels
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
mushrooms doe poison
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
honesty should dangerous
Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...
forgiveness hate
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
natural reticence clear
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
thinking trying crosses
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
heaven black magic
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
firsts mastery made
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.