Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore quote As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore quote Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore quote 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 quote It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore quote A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore quote Biography
1887-1972, US poet and editor
