When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
- Marianne Moore
Experience, Own, Chiefly, Temptation
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- Marianne Moore
Art, Poetry, Gardens, Imaginary
There never was a war that was not inward.
- Marianne Moore
War, Never, Inward
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
- Marianne Moore
Through, Regions, Having, Wander
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
- Marianne Moore
Reason, Other, Which, Category
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
- Marianne Moore
Independence, Mark, Bondage, Impatience
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
- Marianne Moore
Suffering, Too Much, Too, Sarcasm
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
- Marianne Moore
Been, Made, Until, Captive
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
- Marianne Moore
Always, Shows, Itself, Restraint
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
- Marianne Moore
Sentence, Pull, Itself, Excitement
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
- Marianne Moore
Nature, Stand, Middle, Human Nature
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
- Marianne Moore
Himself, Sure, Almost, Pleasing
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
- Marianne Moore
Poetry, Verbs, Noun
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
- Marianne Moore
Trust, Sickness, Makes, Contagion
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
- Marianne Moore
Psychology, Still, Which, Explains
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
- Marianne Moore
Communication, Interest, No Interest
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
- Marianne Moore
Beauty, Time, Everlasting, Dust
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
- Marianne Moore
Himself, Writer, Unable, Unfair
Superior people never make long visits.
- Marianne Moore
People, Never, Visits, Superior
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
- Marianne Moore
Father, Never, Visits, Superior
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
- Marianne Moore
Right, Disease, Itself, Setting
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
Think, Will, I Think, Appears
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