Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972), full name Marianne Craig Moore, was a US modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. She is known for her poetry having formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Beauty is everlasting

And dust is for a time.
- In Distrust of Merits

• I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

- Spenser's Ireland

• My father used to say

'Superior people never make long visits.'
- Silence

• Psychology which explains everything

Explains nothing,
And we are still in doubt.
- Marriage

• Verbal felicity is the fruit of art and diligence and refusing to be false.

- quoted by Louise Bogan, College English, February 1953

David McCord