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"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), U.S. poet. Nevertheless (l. 21-25). . .
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books. |
"O to be a dragon
a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!"
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "O To Be a Dragon," O To Be a Dragon (1959). |
"the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
numbering the units in each group;
the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise"
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Peter (l. 3-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books. |
"I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle."
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry."
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 25-28). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a
flea,"
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 13). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"Mabove insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have
it."
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "Poetry," Selected Poems (1935). |
"nor till the poets among us can be
literalists of
the imagination—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them',
shall we have"
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 20-24). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Quoted in New York Mirror (May 31, 1959).
On accepting the National Book Award for poetry. |
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint."
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "Silence," Selected Poems (1935). |
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