Marianne Craig Moore quotes Born: 11/15/1887 Died: 02/05/1972 Country: usa

• We are suffering from too much sarcasm. (Marianne Moore) [suffering]
• Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. (Marianne Moore)
• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. (Marianne Moore)
• Superior people never make long visits. (Marianne Moore) [people]
• Poetry is all nouns and verbs. (Marianne Moore) [poetry]
• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. (Marianne Moore) [human/nature/thing]
• War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. (Marianne Moore) [war/]
• My father used to say superior people never make long visits. (Marianne Moore) [people]
• As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. (Marianne Moore) [trust/trust]
• Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. (Marianne Moore)
• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. (Marianne Moore)
• I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. (Marianne Moore)
• If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. (Marianne Moore)
• If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try. (Marianne Moore)
• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. (Marianne Moore)
• 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. (Marianne Moore)
• It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. (Marianne Moore)
• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. (Marianne Moore)
• Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. (Marianne Moore)
• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. (Marianne Moore)
• There never was a war that was not inward. (Marianne Moore)
• When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. (Marianne Moore)
• You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. (Marianne Moore)

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