Marianne Moore: Likeness

Marianne Moore was American poet and writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Marianne Moore: 118 quotes2 likes

“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)
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“The problems is mastered — insupportably
tiring when it was impending.
Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.”

Marianne Moore

"Charity Overcoming Envy"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.”

Marianne Moore

Essay - 1957 Subject, Predicate, Object

“This is a strange fraternity — these sea lions and land lions,
land unicorns and sea unicorns;
the lion civilly rampant,
tame and concessive like the long-tailed bear of Ecuador —
the lion standing up against this screen of woven air
which is the forest:
the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity.”

Marianne Moore

"Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“I never plan a stanza, words cluster like chromosomes determining the procedure, later, I may influence or thin it.”

Marianne Moore

“So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear
but never caught,
the unicorn has been preserved
by an unmatched device
wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths …”

Marianne Moore

"Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)