Marianne Moore Quotes about Reading

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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

Reading, People, Results

"Marianne Moore, Poet of Affection". Book by Pamela White Hadas, p. 6, 1977.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Marianne Moore

Art, Reading, Mean

Marianne Moore (1997). “The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore”, Alfred A. Knopf