Marianne Moore on Poetry
1887–1972 United States
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Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.
Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination
Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.
You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it !
'Hebrew poetry is,
prose with a sort of heightened consciousness' Ecstasy
affords
the occasion expediency, determines the form
Collected Poems (1951)