About Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, translator and editor. Her poetry is celebrated for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony and wit. She worked across several literary roles, shaping modern poetry with her distinctive voice.
![“[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.” quote by Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb0/marianne-moore-3315_amber_on-her-use-of-quotations-when-a-thing-ha_1508239.png)
![“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature…” quote by Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/820/marianne-moore-3315_grave_as-for-a-grave-it-has-a-significance-apa_3194459.png)
