Marianne Moore

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 deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
    not in silence, but restraint.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    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)

    If ‘compression is the first grace of style,’
    you have it.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    Durer would have seen a reason for living
    in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
    to look at;
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)