QUOTES by Marianne Moore
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It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.
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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
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I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
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The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
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Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
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[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
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Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
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Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
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Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
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