Top 22 Quotes by Marianne Moore

There never was a war that was not inward.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

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

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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.

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