Marianne Moore Quotes

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

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading, it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.