175 Quotes by Marianne Moore

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

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

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

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

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

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

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.

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

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.