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
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.
heart hands messengers
The hands are the heart's messengers.
work hands weather
Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
eye hair hands
Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
reading perfect genuine
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
people
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
doubt explains psychology
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
deepest feeling feelings itself restraint shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint
anybody books-and-reading everybody
anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell
war inward peace-justice
There never was a war that was not inward.
fabric excitement gravity
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
trust sickness contagion
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.