Marianne Moore

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

— Marianne Moore

#doubt #i #interest #technique #writer

We are suffering from too much sarcasm. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#sarcasm #suffering #too #too much

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

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

— Marianne Moore

#human nature #middle #nature #stand #thing

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. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

My father used to say superior people never make long visits. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#long #make #never #people #say

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#poetry #verbs

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#everything #explains #nothing #psychology #still

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#itself #passion #people #right #setting

There never was a war that was not inward. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#never #war