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"22 Marianne Moore Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 November 1887. | Poet | Critic | Translator | Editor |

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

Art Creating Gardens Imaginary
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Disease Itself Passion People
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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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.

Am Excitement Fabric Governed
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Much Sarcasm Suffering Too
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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Superior people never make long visits.

Long Make Never People
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Human Nature Middle Nature
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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.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Noun Poetry
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Contagion Make Makes Sickness
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Father Long Make Never
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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There never was a war that was not inward.

Inward Never War
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty Dust Everlasting Time
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Bondage Impatience Independence
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Been Belief Captive Free
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Always Deepest Feeling Itself
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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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.

Appears Cross I Can Think
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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.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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Marianne Moore Quotes & Sayings