Logo
Quote by Marianne Moore
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. - Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

Other quotes by Marianne Moore
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

Category:
Poetry

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. – Muriel Rukeyser

Category:
Poetry

Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Failures a natural part of life. – John Malkovich

Category:
Failure

What is conceived well is expressed clearly. – Philippe Nericault Destouches

Category:
Simplicity

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. – Dave Barry

Category:
teen

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didnt want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. – Alice Walker

Category:
Money