Marianne Moore
Poet
1887-11-15
Quotes by Marianne Moore
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Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.
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You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He gives his opinion and then rests upon it; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
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Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.
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Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He gives his opinion and then rests upon it; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
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You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poetry.
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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