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:
“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
shoes! Denmark’s sanctuaried Jews!”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”
—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)
“Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“We do not like some things, and the hero
doesn’t; deviating head-stones
and uncertainty;
going where one does not wish
to go;suffering and not
saying so;”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)