Marianne Moore Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Thinking, Trying, Crosses

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• A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

  Marianne Moore

  Mastery, Firsts, Made

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.165, Penguin

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• Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

  Marianne Moore

  Life, Towns, Reason

  Marianne Moore (1964). “Festschrift for Marianne Moore's seventy seventh birthday”

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• Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

  Marianne Moore

  Fall, Fighting, Animal

  Marianne Moore (1956). “Like a bulwark”, Viking Press, 1957

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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.

  Marianne Moore

  Temptation, Blunders, Appraisal

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

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• I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

  Marianne Moore

  Poet, Pretentious, Disgusting

  Marianne Moore (1967). “The complete poems of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

  Marianne Moore

  Giving, Letters

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.59, Penguin

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• Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

  Marianne Moore

  Christmas, Fire, Yule

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.228, Penguin

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• Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
  adjusting the ash heaps;
  opening and shutting itself like
  
  an
  injured fan.

  Marianne Moore

  Blue, Crow, Fans

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.234, Univ of California Press

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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!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Dragons, Heaven

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
  numbering the units in each group;
  the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

  Marianne Moore

  Eye, Groups, Mouths

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.49, Macmillan

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• the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
  buoys,
  advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
  dropped things are bound to sink--
  in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
  consciousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Noise

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

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• Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast
  each with a splendor
  which man in all his vileness cannot
  set aside; each with an excellence!

  Marianne Moore

  Moon, Night, Men

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.118, Penguin

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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

  Marianne Moore

  Ties, Victory, Grapes

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.125, Penguin

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• The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
  shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

  Marianne Moore

  Shoes, White, Dancing

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.132, Penguin

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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?

  Marianne Moore

  Attitude, Self, Sticks

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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