Writing Quotes by Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

[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.

Amber

Use

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Men

Sound

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Honest

Pleasing Others

Writing

Marianne Moore

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Conscious

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Baseball

Exciting

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Calling

Reason

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Burning

Desire

Writing

Marianne Moore

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

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

Modest

Undertakings

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Marianne Moore

[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.

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

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

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

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

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

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

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

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

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