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Marianne Moore Biography

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

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

Artist, Doubt, Interest, Technique, Writer

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

Creatures, Deserve, Fleece, Freeze, Think, Thinking

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Guilt, Innocence, Naked, Safe

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

Blacksmiths, Disappear, Experts, Preserved, Unicorn, Unmatched

[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

Amber, Cabinet, Paraphrase, Use, Writing

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Political, Psychology, Doubt, Explains, Everything

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

Doe, Fully, Realization, Realize, Self

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty, Dust, Everlasting

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Pleasure, Rule, Sensation, Sense, Sometimes, Work

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Ego, Egotism, Subversive, Usually

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

Dislike, Genuine, Perfect, Reading

Originality is. . . a by-product of sincerity.

Being Single, Being Yourself, Individuality, Originality, Sincerity

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Among, Animal, Animals, Saves, Steps, Years

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Temptation, Blunders, Appraisal, Appraise, Appraiser

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

Canaveral, Capes, Handle, Missiles, Yogi

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

Admire, Understand

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Sweet, Air, Water, Fish, Fine, Formal

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Nouns, Poetry, Verbs

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Imagination, Towers, Evanescence, Flexible, Render

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Nature, Indecision, Middle, Nature, Thing

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