Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Victory
Knotted
Unless
Grape
Times
Knot
Come
Knots
Grapes
Ties
Thirty
Till
More quotes by Marianne Moore
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
Marianne Moore
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
Marianne Moore
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Marianne Moore
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Marianne Moore
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
Marianne Moore
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
Marianne Moore
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
Marianne Moore
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
Marianne Moore
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
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
The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moore
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
Marianne Moore
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
Marianne Moore
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside each with an excellence!
Marianne Moore
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Marianne Moore
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
Marianne Moore
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
Marianne Moore
