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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
American Poet
Born: Nov 15, 1887
Died: Feb 5, 1972
Himself Itself Make Never People Poetry
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Me You Try Will Think Tell Cross Then Appears Why
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore
Art Poetry Real Toad Creating Gardens Imaginary
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. Marianne Moore
People Passion Setting Itself Disease Right
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. Marianne Moore
You Made Free Until Supreme Been Captive Belief
My father used to say superior people never make long visits. Marianne Moore
People Father Superior Long Say Visits Never Make Used
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. Marianne Moore
Unfair Unable Writer He Himself Hard
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. Marianne Moore
Nature Human Nature Human Middle Stand Thing
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 Out Temptation Seems Chiefly Blunder Cannot Useful Even Appraisal Appraise
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Marianne Moore
Time Beauty Dust Everlasting
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. Marianne Moore
Independence Mark Impatience Bondage
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
Man Old Poet Back Critic Having Through Cruel Like Without Enchantment His Forever Quite Wander Cannot Regions Old Man Sea

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