Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

Read more about Marianne Moore:  Life, Poetic Career, Later Years, Selected Works

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    Concurring hands divide

    flax for damask
    that when bleached by Irish weather
    has the silvered chamois-leather
    water-tightness of a
    skin.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    He’s not out
    seeing a sight but the rock
    crystal thing to see—the startling El Greco
    brimming with inner light—that
    covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know
    as the hero.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    At all events there is in Brooklyn
    something that makes me feel at home.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)