Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit. Read full biography of Marianne Moore →
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly... →
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
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.
Superior people never make long visits.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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 (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.