Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

Read more about Marianne Moore:  Life, Poetic Career, Later Years, Selected Works

Famous quotes by marianne moore:

    Victory won’t come

    to me unless I go
    to it; a grape tendril
    ties a knot in knots till

    knotted thirty times,—
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    We do not like some things, and the hero
    doesn’t; deviating head-stones
    and uncertainty;
    going where one does not wish
    to go;suffering and not
    saying so;
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    At all events there is in Brooklyn
    something that makes me feel at home.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    Unignorant,
    modest and unemotional, and all emotion,
    he has everlasting vigor,
    power to grow,
    though there are few creatures who can make one
    breathe faster and make one erecter.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
    not in silence, but restraint.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)