Marianne Moore - Reading Quotes

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I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Marianne Moore

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people, I'm sure of that. I had no ambition to be a writer.

Marianne Moore

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Marianne Moore