Marianne Moore Quotes

Marianne Moore (23)

Birth:	15th November, 1887
Death:	5th February, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet, Writer

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• 1951 - Paul Muldoon
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• As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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• The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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• Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

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• You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief.

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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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• We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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• There never was a war that was not inward.

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• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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• Superior people never make long visits.

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• Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

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• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

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• Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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• My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

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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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• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

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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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• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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• 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.

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• If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

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