Marianne Moore quotes - page 2

In Homer, existence
is flawed; transcendence, conditional;
' the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual. (Marianne Moore)

I don't consider In Distrust of Merits a poem. It's just a burst of feelings. It's emotion recorded, a 'haphazard form ' a protest.

Marianne Moore

One may be pardoned, yes I know one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)

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What of it? We call them brave perhaps? Yes; what if the time should come when no one will fight for anything and there's nothing of worth to save.

Marianne Moore

You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it!

Marianne Moore

There is hate's crown beneath which all is death; there's love without which none is king.

Marianne Moore

Blessed the man whose faith is different from possessiveness - of a kind not framed by 'things which do appear.

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The hands are the heart's messengers.

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Your thorns are the best part of you.

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The heart that gives, gathers.

Marianne Moore

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. (Marianne Moore)

The problems is mastered - insupportably tiring when it was impending. Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.

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Whatever it is.. poem.. play, story.. it must hold attention.

Marianne Moore

Consume hostility; employ your weapon in this meeting-place of surging enmity! Insurgent feet shall not outrun multiplied flames, O Sun.

Marianne Moore

There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.

Marianne Moore

I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.

Marianne Moore

Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination.

Marianne Moore

I have learned more from Ezra Pound about writing than from anyone else.

Marianne Moore

This is a strange fraternity - these sea lions and land lions, land unicorns and sea unicorns; the lion civilly rampant, tame and concessive like the long-tailed bear of Ecuador - the lion standing up against this screen of woven air which is the forest: the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity.

Marianne Moore

I look upon verse as an exercise in composition.

Marianne Moore

Tell me, Tell me where might there be a refuge for me
from egocentricity
and its propensity to bisect,
mis-state, misunderstand
and obliterate continuity? (Marianne Moore)

I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.

Marianne Moore

Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn, One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."

Marianne Moore

I tend to write in patterned arrangement with rhymes.. I try to secure an effect of flowing continuity and the correspondence between verse and music.

Marianne Moore

Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested ... liberate the imagination.

Marianne Moore

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