I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore quote anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell
Marianne Moore quote My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore quote Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore quote Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore quote The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore quote War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Marianne Moore quote When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore quote Biography
1887-1972, US poet and editor
