Marianne Moore Quotes
17 Marianne Moore quotes:
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
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"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt"
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"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."
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"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"
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"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint"
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"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief"
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"anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell"
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"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."
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"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."
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"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."
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"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
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"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
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"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust"
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