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Marianne Moore
American
Poet
About the author
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#People
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Feeling
#Restraint
#Silence
There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#War
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#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,
American
Poet
#Experience
#Temptation
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Doubt
#Psychology
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Work
#Reason
#Poetry
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Right
#People
#Disease
#Passion
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Art
#Poetry
#Gardens
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Poetry
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#People
#Father
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,
American
Poet
#Man
#Old
#Sea
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#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,
American
Poet
#Gravity
#Excitement
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Independence
#Impatience
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Writer
#Interest
#Doubt
#Artist
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Suffering
#Sarcasm
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Time
#Beauty
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Trust
#Sickness
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#Writer
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore,
American
Poet
#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,
American
Poet
#Will