Marianne Moore Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

  Marianne Moore

  Time, Thinking, Wonder

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.62, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

  Marianne Moore

  Capes, Yogi, Missiles

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.222, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Concurring hands divide
  
  flax for damask
  that when bleached by Irish weather
  has the silvered chamois-leather
  water-tightness of a
  skin.

  Marianne Moore

  Work, Hands, Weather

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.113, 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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• Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

  Marianne Moore

  Baseball, Writing, Exciting

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

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