Marianne Moore Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Yule - Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner - of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
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.
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ...
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.
Poetry
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
Victory won't come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious.
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious.
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.
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.