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Marianne Moore Quotes

American - Poet | November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972

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

Doubt Nothing Everything Psychology

Superior people never make long visits.

People Long Never Superior Visits

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

Unfair Hard Writer He Himself

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

Passion People Right Disease Setting

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.

I Am Gravity Excitement Fabric Poem

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Trust Sickness Make Makes Contagion

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

Father People Long Say Never Used

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

Free You Belief Been Made Supreme

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

Work Poetry Reason See I See Except

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Me Think You I Can Why Try

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