Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.
Read more about Marianne Moore: Life, Poetic Career, Later Years, Selected Works
Famous quotes by marianne moore:
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“in the absence of feet, ‘a method of conclusions’;
‘a knowledge of principles,’
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)