Marianne Moore: Poetry

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

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“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

“Hebrew poetry is,
prose with a sort of heightened consciousness' Ecstasy
affords
the occasion expediency, determines the form”

The Past is the Present
Collected Poems (1951)

“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”

Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
Prose

“Poetry I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle,
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it
one discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.”

Poetry
Collected Poems (1951)

“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
Prose

“If you demand on the other hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.”

Poetry
Collected Poems (1951)

“You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it!”

Quoted by Malvina Hoffman in her Memoir - Yesterday is Tomorrow 1961

“Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.”

Moore's Review in Criterion 1936 of Wallace Stevens Ideas of Order