Marianne Moore Quotes

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• Your thorns are the best part of you.

  Marianne Moore

  Personality, Thorns

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan

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  Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

  Marianne Moore

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

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• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

  Marianne Moore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The heart that gives, gathers.

  Marianne Moore

  Life, Heart, Nurse

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• The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

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  Silence, Feelings, Restraint

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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  Writing, Pleasing Others, Honest

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

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• Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Creativity, Energy

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• Omissions are not accidents.

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  Omission, Accidents

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

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• The hands are the heart's messengers.

  Marianne Moore

  Heart, Hands, Messengers

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• When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

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  Time, Use, Interruptions

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Superior people never make long visits.

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  Inspirational, Long, People

  "Silence" l. 1 (1935)

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• There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

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  Peace, Freedom, War

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

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• Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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  Ego, Egotism, Sagacity

  Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne, Marianne Moore (1927). “The Dial”

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• Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

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  Poetic, Primal

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

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• One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

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  Creative, Conquer, Detachment

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.53, Penguin

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• Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Conscious

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• Revision is its own reward.

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  Revision, Rewards

  Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore (1954). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

  Marianne Moore

  Beauty, Dust, Everlasting

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

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• We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.

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  Brave, Be Brave, Reluctant

  Marianne Moore (2017). “New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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  Relationship, Passion, People

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• Excess is the common substitute for energy.

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  Energy, Excess, Common

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

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• The power of the visible is the invisible.

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  Angel, Invisible, Visible

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.100, Penguin

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• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

  Marianne Moore

  Editing, Editors, Unfair

  Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

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• In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

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  Mind, Ears, Should

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• One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

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  Natural, Clear, Reticence

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

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