Marianne Moore quotes
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“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr
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“the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”
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“Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.”
-- Marianne Moore#Being Yourself Quotes #Being Single Quotes #Originality Quotes
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
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“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan
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“Omissions are not accidents.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.5, Penguin
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“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.111, Univ of California Press
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“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.
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“The power of the visible is the invisible.”
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“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”
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“I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.”
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“There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin
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“I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.”
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“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.14, Macmillan
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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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“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!”
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“Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times”
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“What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?”
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“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”
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“Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.”
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“The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.”
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“Superior people never make long visits.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : "Silence" l. 1 (1935)
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“There never was a war that was not inward.”
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“O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!”
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“We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.”
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“What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.”
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“Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?”
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“There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.”
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“At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.”
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“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.”
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“When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.”
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“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin
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“Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.”
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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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“The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.”
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin
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“As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.”
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“Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.”
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“Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.”
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“As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.”
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