Marianne Moore Quotes - Page 3

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• You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

  Marianne Moore

  Heart, Men, Males

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• The mind is an enchanting thing.

  Marianne Moore

  Mind, Enchanting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin

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• There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Unconscious, Amount

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.38, Penguin

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

  Marianne Moore

  Artist, Doubt, Technique

  Marianne Moore (1958). “Idiosyncrasy & Technique”

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• 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.

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• Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

  Marianne Moore

  Imagination, Towers, Evanescence

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Peace, War, Might

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

  Marianne Moore

  Sweet, Air, Water

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.5, Penguin

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• Unconfusion submits
  its confusion to proof; it's
  not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

  Marianne Moore

  Confusion, Proof, Herod

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.135, Penguin

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• ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Hands

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

  Marianne Moore

  Guilt, Naked, Safe

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.95, Penguin

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• All are / naked, none is safe.

  Marianne Moore

  Naked, Safe, Vulnerability

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.95, Penguin

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• Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

  Marianne Moore

  Beauty, Stars, Tears

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

  Marianne Moore

  Animal, Skins, Welfare

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• Poetry
  ...
  ... a place for the genuine,
  Hands that can grasp, eyes
  that can dilate, hair that can rise

  Marianne Moore

  Eye, Hair, Hands

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.205, Univ of California Press

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

  Marianne Moore

  Human Nature, Indecision, Middle

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

  Marianne Moore

  Men, Sun, Beast

  Marianne Moore (1961). “Collected Poems”

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• 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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• Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

  Marianne Moore

  Mother, Character, Stories

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.112, Penguin

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• Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

  Marianne Moore

  Honesty, Should, Dangerous

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

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• There never was a war that was not inward.

  Marianne Moore

  War, Inward, Peace Justice

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Verbs, Nouns

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• So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

  Marianne Moore

  Experts, Unicorn, Disappear

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.78, Penguin

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• [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Amber, Use

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• Camels are snobbish
  and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic--
  even murderous.
  Reindeer seem over-serious.

  Marianne Moore

  Sheep, Water, Camels

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.194, Penguin

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