Marianne Moore

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

— Marianne Moore

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

— Marianne Moore

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

— Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

— Marianne Moore

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

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

— Marianne Moore

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

— Marianne Moore

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

— Marianne Moore

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

— Marianne Moore

Any valentine that is written Is as the vendange to the vine.

— Marianne Moore