Marianne Moore

Who was Marianne Moore?

Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

Famous Quotes:

• Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
• We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
• Superior people never make long visits.
• My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
• Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
• When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
• As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
• War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.