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Marianne Moore quotes

American Poet November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972

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Marianne Moore quote: "Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or..."
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. Marianne Moore
Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Marianne Moore
Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, “In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist.” The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science... Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "Your thorns are the best part of you."
Your thorns are the best part of you. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust..."
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "The self does not realize itself most fully when..."
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence."
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in..."
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "My father used to say superior people never make long visits."
My father used to say superior people never make long visits. Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore quote: "I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there..."
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Marianne Moore
...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor 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 in them," shall we have it. Marianne Moore
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. Marianne Moore

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