"The Staff of Aesculapius"
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Famous Marianne Moore Quotes
Hebrews 11:3
Blessed be the Man
Poetry
“There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war”
In Distrust of Merits
Poetry
“Omissions are not accidents.”
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967), Author's note, p. vi
Marianne Moore Quotes about music
“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”
Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
Prose
Letter to Miss Gray in 1936 in response for a biographical sketch. Reproduced in Marianne Moore - A Literary Life by Charles Molesworth, Macmillan, New York 1990
“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”
Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
Prose
Oxford Anthology of American Literature 1938
Prose
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“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
"Silence"
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Marianne Moore Quotes
“What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.”
Interview with Donald Hall in November 1960, pub.'Paris Review' The Art of Poetry, no 26 (1961)
“Poetry is a magic of pauses … not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.”
Poetry and Criticism - American Peoples Encyclopedia , Groller , New York 1965
The Past is the Present
Collected Poems (1951)
“We Call Them the Brave
who likely were reluctant to be brave.”
"We Call Them the Brave" (the title of this poem is also obviously meant to be read as its first line, though set apart)
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"Comment" in The Dial, No. 86 (April 1929)
I Believe in Prayer - - How Prayer helps me The Dial Press 1955
Prose
"The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid"
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"Charity Overcoming Envy"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
“Whatever it is.. poem.. play, story.. it must hold attention.”
Poetry as Expression - The Writer April 1962
Prose
“My father used to say "Superior people never make long visits."”
"Silence"
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Interview with Grace Shulman. Quarterly Review of Literature 1969
“that which is impossible to force, it is impossible
to hinder.”
"Radical"
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"Sun" from Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
Poetry
“One may be pardoned, yes I know
one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)”
Voracities and Verities Sometimes are Interesting
Poetry
“Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.”
As quoted in Marianne Moore, Poet of Affection (1977) by Pamela White Hadas, p. 6
“Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.”
"In Distrust of Merits" (1944)
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
"O To Be A Dragon" in O To Be A Dragon (1957)
Poetry
Essay - 1957 Subject, Predicate, Object
“I have learned more from Ezra Pound about writing than from anyone else.”
Review of Letters of Ezra Pound 1950
Prose
"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
"Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
“What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe.”
"What Are Years?"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
“I look upon verse as an exercise in composition.”
Authors of 1951 Speaking for Themselves NY Herald Tribue 7 Oct 1951
Prose
“Some speak of things we know, as new;
And you, of things unknown as things forgot.”
"Quoting an Also Private Thought" (this poem is a very slight reworking of an earlier poem "As Has Been Said")
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“Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."”
"The Lion in Love"
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"We Call Them the Brave"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
"Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
Of the porcupine, in "Apparition of Splendor"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)
Forward to Marianne Moore Reader 1961
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967), "A Note On The Notes", p. 262
Quoted by Malvina Hoffman in her Memoir - Yesterday is Tomorrow 1961
Moore's Review in Criterion 1936 of Wallace Stevens Ideas of Order
“You are not male nor female, but a plan
deep-set within the heart of man.”
"Sun" from Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
Poetry
Idiosyncrasy and Technique 1958
