Marianne Moore: Quotes about music

Marianne Moore was American poet and writer. Explore interesting quotes on music.
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“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”

Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
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“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
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“I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.”

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