Best Marianne Moore Quotes
- 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… Art
- Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. Imagination
- The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. Afflictive
- The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm… Believe
- Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads… Among
- There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Amount
- As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. Contagion
- The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion. Enchanted
- If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. Artist
- Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Beauty
- When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art. Art
- You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. Been
- The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them. Always Trying
- Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. Evanescence
- Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness. Baubles
- There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule… Consanguinity
- Writing is an undertaking for the modest. Inspirational
- Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. Ego
- We prove, we do not explain, our birth, Birth
- Omissions are not accidents. Accidents
- 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… Excitement
- I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish. Dissatisfied
- I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Calling
- Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Art
- Superior people never make long visits. Inspirational