Famous Quotes / Marianne Moore
17 Quotations by Marianne Moore
- 1. A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
- 2. As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
- 3. Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
- 4. If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
- 5. In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pu ...
- 6. It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
- 7. My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
- 8. Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
- 9. The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
- 10. The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
- 11. There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
- 12. War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of ma ...
- 13. We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
- 14. When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev ...
- 15. When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
- 16. You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
- 17. Your thorns are the best part of you.