Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Contagion
Sickness
Trust
Makes
Make
More quotes by Marianne Moore
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
Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
Marianne Moore
[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
Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty / its existence is too much / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
Marianne Moore
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
Marianne Moore
Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
Marianne Moore
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
Marianne Moore
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
Marianne Moore
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
Marianne Moore
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
Marianne Moore
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Marianne Moore
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
Marianne Moore
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
Marianne Moore
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
Marianne Moore
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
