Marianne Moore Quotes

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Feeling, Restraint, Silence)

"There never was a war that was not inward."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: War)

"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Belief)

"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
(Related: Experience, Temptation)

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Doubt, Nothing, Psychology)

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Poetry, Work, Reason)

"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: People, Disease, Passion, Right)

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Art, Poetry, Gardens)

"Poetry is all nouns and verbs."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Poetry)

"My father used to say superior people never make long visits."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Father, People)

"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
(Related: Man, Old, Sea)

"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Nature, Human nature)

"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
(Related: Excitement, Gravity)

"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Independence, Impatience)

"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Artist, Doubt, Interest, Writer)

"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Sarcasm, Suffering)

"Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Beauty, Time)

"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Trust, Sickness)

"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Writer)

"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Writer)

"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
(Related: Will)