Marianne Moore Quotes

Among animals, one has a sense of humor.
— Marianne Moore What Are Years?

sense of humor

Blessed the geniuses who know
that egomania is not a duty.
— Marianne Moore Like a Bulwark

genius

I lie in wait like a leopard on a branch-strained metaphor. - Marianne Moore quote.

I lie in wait like a leopard on a branch-strained metaphor.
— Marianne Moore Ladies’ Home Journal

poets

You're not free
until you've been made captive by
supreme belief. - Marianne Moore quote.

You're not free
until you've been made captive by
supreme belief.
— Marianne Moore What Are Years?

beliefs

In a poem, the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. - Marianne Moore quote.

In a poem, the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
— Marianne Moore Their Ancient Glittering Eyes

poetry

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. - Marianne Moore quote.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
— Marianne Moore Ladies’ Home Journal

poets

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
— Marianne Moore The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore

animals

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. - Marianne Moore quote.

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.
— Marianne Moore A Marianne Moore Reader

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