Quote

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Marianne Moore

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Sincerity
Individuality
Product
Products
Originality

More quotes by Marianne Moore

Image
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
Marianne Moore
Image
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Marianne Moore
Image
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Marianne Moore
Image
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
Marianne Moore
Image
All are / naked, none is safe.
Marianne Moore
Image
The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moore
Image
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
Marianne Moore
Image
Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
Marianne Moore
Image
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
Marianne Moore
Image
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
Marianne Moore
Image
Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
Marianne Moore
Image
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
Marianne Moore
Image
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, Again the sun! anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.
Marianne Moore
Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
Marianne Moore
Image
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
Marianne Moore
Image
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore
Image
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.
Marianne Moore
Image
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
Marianne Moore
Image
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Marianne Moore
Image
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
Marianne Moore