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:
“Victory won’t come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times,—”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“nor till the poets among us can be ‘literalists of the imagination’Mabove insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them,’ shall we have
it.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“He’s not out
seeing a sight but the rock
crystal thing to see—the startling El Greco
brimming with inner light—that
covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know
as the hero.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)