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
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
imagination poetry proficiency
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poet pretentious disgusting
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
writing categories poetry-is
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
poetic primal
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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
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.