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Marianne Moore [1887-1972] American
Rank: 103
Poet (with poems)

Imagism, Modernism, Others, Anti-meter


Marianne Craig Moore was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

Poetry, Art, Beauty, Communication, Independence, Trust



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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
101
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
102
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. Independence
103
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Art, Poetry
104
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. Trust
105
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Beauty
106
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
107
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.
108
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. Communication
109
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
110
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.
111
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
112
Superior people never make long visits.
113
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
114
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
115
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
116
There never was a war that was not inward.
117
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
118
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Poetry
119
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.
120
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
121
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
122

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