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 →
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
There never was a war that was not inward.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
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... →
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.