Marianne Moore Quotes about Writing

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Pleasing Others, Honest

Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Conscious

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Modest, Undertakings

Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Calling, Reason

Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Desire, Burning

Marianne Moore (1958). “Idiosyncrasy & Technique”

[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Amber, Use

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Categories, Poetry Is

Interview with Donald Hall, pub.'Paris Review' The Art of Poetry, no 26 (1961), 1960.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Marianne Moore

Writing, Men, Sound

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Marianne Moore

Baseball, Writing, Exciting

Marianne Moore (1967). “The complete poems of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

Marianne Moore Quotes about Writing

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