Quotes by Marianne Moore

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is...

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other...

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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized,...

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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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There never was a war that was not inward.

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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

#Marianne Moore