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Marianne Moore Quotes

Marianne Moore Quotes.

Omissions are not accidents.
Marianne Moore
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
Marianne Moore
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
The mind is an enchanting thing.
Marianne Moore
The hands are the heart’s messengers.
Marianne Moore
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
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore
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
There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one’s detachment.
Marianne Moore
You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Marianne Moore
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
Marianne Moore
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
When one is frank, one’s very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
Originality is… a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
Marianne Moore
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore