Marianne Moore

Quotes by Marianne Moore

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Poet · American · 1887–1972

American poet (1887–1972)

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“Poetry is all nouns and verbs.”
— Marianne Moore
Verbs

“As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.”
— Marianne Moore
faith unity

“You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.”
— Marianne Moore
faith unity

“The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.”
— Marianne Moore
forgiveness

“When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.”
— Marianne Moore
helping people

“I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.”
— Marianne Moore
patriotism nationalism

“Superior people never make long visits.”
— Marianne Moore
self control

“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
— Marianne Moore
self control

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
— Marianne Moore
self knowledge

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poe...”
— Marianne Moore
poetry

“Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise”
— Marianne Moore
poetry

“Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individ...”
— Marianne Moore
knowledge student students study

“They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.”
— Marianne Moore
america soldiers war

“You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.”
— Marianne Moore
androgeny female gender male

“TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HUGO Of: my crow Pluto, the true Plato, azzurronegro green-blue rainbow— Victor Hugo, it is true we...”
— Marianne Moore
italian language modernist poem

“TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detrimental as well if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that one can live only on top leaves that...”
— Marianne Moore
language modernist poem poet

“ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosema...”
— Marianne Moore
language modernist poem poet

“In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of...”
— Marianne Moore
language modernist poem poet

“Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.”
— Marianne Moore
christmas yul-brynner yule yule-log

“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”
— Marianne Moore
disgust poet poets pretention