Marianne Moore Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

  Marianne Moore

  Reading, Perfect, Genuine

  'Poetry' (1935)

• Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

  Marianne Moore

  Reading, People, Results

  "Marianne Moore, Poet of Affection". Book by Pamela White Hadas, p. 6, 1977.

• It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Reading, Mean

  Marianne Moore (1997). “The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore”, Alfred A. Knopf

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