A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
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.
Marianne Moore
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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.
Marianne Moore
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore
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