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Marianne Moore, née le 15 novembre 1887 et décédée le 5 février 1972, est une écrivaine et poétesse moderniste américaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. novembre 1887 – 5. février 1972   •   Autres noms Marianne Craig Moore
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Marianne Moore: Citations en anglais

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

Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
Prose

“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

“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

“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")
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."”

"The Lion in Love"
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)