"O To Be A Dragon" in O To Be A Dragon (1957)
Poetry
Marianne Moore: 59 citations0 J'aime
Marianne Moore: Citations en anglais
“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”
Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
Prose
“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”
Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
Prose
“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
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)
Oxford Anthology of American Literature 1938
Prose
"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