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
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fall fighting animal
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
brave be-brave reluctant
We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
experts unicorn disappear
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ...
impossible force hinder
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
poetic primal
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
foxes arctic
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
heart men males
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
honesty compliment frank
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
blessed genius egomania
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
art reading mean
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.
creative conquer detachment
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
resistance wool assertiveness
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
dragons heaven size
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
memories flower hair
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.