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
people
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
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.
inspirational long people
Superior people never make long visits.
reading people results
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
relationship passion people
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
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.
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.