About Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. Her Collected Poems (1951) won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
More quotations from Marianne Moore
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
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