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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
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Robert Frost
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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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