Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Marianne Moore (American Poet)

Marianne Craig Moore (1887–1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

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

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

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Trust

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Independence

You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Faith, Belief

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Decisions, Indecision

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Language

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Silence, Feelings

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
Topics: Judgment, Judges, Judging

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Peace

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Egotism, Ego

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Criticism, Critics

Originality is … a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Originality

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Marianne Moore
Topics: Authors & Writing

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