Quote

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

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
Thinking
Adam
Wonder
Time
Think

More quotes by Marianne Moore

Image
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
Marianne Moore
Image
The power of the visible is the invisible.
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
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
Image
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Marianne Moore
Image
There never was a war that was not inward.
Marianne Moore
Image
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
Marianne Moore
Image
[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
Marianne Moore
Image
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
Marianne Moore
Image
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
Marianne Moore
Image
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
Marianne Moore
Image
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
Marianne Moore
Image
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
Image
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
Marianne Moore
Image
The hands are the heart's messengers.
Marianne Moore
Image
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
Marianne Moore
Image
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore
Image
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
Marianne Moore
Image
The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moore
Image
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore