Marianne Moore

Date of Birth:

15-Nov-1887

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

One of the greatest poets known in the history of American literature, Marilyn Moore was renowned for her accurate phraseology, shrewdness and irony. She was known for her compilation of poems named Collected Poems, Poetry and The Complete Poems. Moore went on to win premier accolades such as National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize and National Medal for Literature. A meticulous Presbyterian since childhood, she was strongly influenced by the Christian faith. She expected poets to create masterpieces through words that would produce imaginary gardens with real toads in them. Moore believed that poetry is a form of mastery and morality. Anything which is phrased poorly despite being in perfect form cannot be accepted as poetry. Many believed that her work cannot be stereotyped under a class of poetry. We have collected Moore’s quotes and thoughts from her poems, writings, and general observations about life, religion, society etc. Let us browse through some of the greatest lines by this witty poet, which will be remembered till eternity.

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QUOTES BY Marianne Moore

Your thorns are the best part of you.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

There never was a war that was not inward.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Superior people never make long visits.