Top 22 Quotes by Marianne Moore

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

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

There never was a war that was not inward.