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
writing modest undertakings
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
writing men sound
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
writing categories poetry-is
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
baseball writing exciting
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go...
writing amber use
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
writing conscious
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
writing desire burning
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
writing pleasing-others honest
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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