Marianne Moore Writing Quotations

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

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

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

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

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

[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.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

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