Excitement Quote by Marianne Moore

“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.” quote by Marianne Moore — Download Open image

“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.”

Marianne Moore

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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

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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

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

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The hands are the heart's messengers.

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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

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Revision is its own reward.

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Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

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The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater…

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I've always bought CDs and even when I was young and at primary school I had a massive collection of CDs. I just like…

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Any trend that generates a lot of excitement encounters scepticism due to the bad experiences - internet and housing crashes - of the past…

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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

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“Life is difficult.”

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Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

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. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

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But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight…

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