Frases de Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore foi uma escritora e poetisa modernista dos Estados Unidos da América.

✵ 15. Novembro 1887 – 5. Fevereiro 1972   •   Outros nomes Marianne Craig Moore
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Marianne Moore: Frases em inglês

“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

Review -Jean Gaingne -New & Selected Poems 1967
Prose

“What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe.”

"What Are Years?"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“I look upon verse as an exercise in composition.”

Authors of 1951 Speaking for Themselves NY Herald Tribue 7 Oct 1951
Prose

“I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.”

Letter to Miss Gray in 1936 in response for a biographical sketch. Reproduced in Marianne Moore - A Literary Life by Charles Molesworth, Macmillan, New York 1990

“Some speak of things we know, as new;
And you, of things unknown as things forgot.”

"Quoting an Also Private Thought" (this poem is a very slight reworking of an earlier poem "As Has Been Said")
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."”

"The Lion in Love"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

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

Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)