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MalWGME: I just ran into one Republican lawmaker on the committee. She says people will not be cut off from testifying tonight. Seeing just Democrats signing on to this, I asked if they had taken a position on this. Sen. Marianne Moore said no— adding, for now, they are just listening.
TheTLS: ‘For quiet excitement, canoe-ers / or peach fairs? or near Perugia, the mule-show’ – Marianne Moore
OInscendence: "Self reliant like the cat --
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth --
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
and can be robbed of speech
by speech which has delighted them."
- Marianne Moore
nytimesmusic: One day in the store’s back garden, a bookstore's owner told him, Lou Reed and a friend started singing old songs with the poet Marianne Moore. The friend, they deduced, was Iggy Pop.
poemakontsa: Poets Allen Ginsberg, a young John Ashbery and a hat donning Marianne Moore at a poet's party (ca. 1967)
mollistan: Article in the NY Times mentions my grandparents' bookstore and has a picture of my grandmother. Gertrude Briggs. Apparently Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Marianne Moore sang together there. Kerouac and Ginsberg were patrons as well.
jntweets: One day in the store’s back garden, she told him, Lou Reed and a friend started singing old songs with the poet Marianne Moore. The friend, they deduced, was Iggy Pop.”
DavidCollard1: Today I completed the fortieth (of fifty) essays for my next book, published in Spring 2024. It features Marianne Moore, Michel Butor, Nell and Nag from Beckett's 'Endgame', Cyril Connolly...
RepublicanCoryR: Senator Marianne Moore,Washington, talks about Republican efforts to bolster school safety and student mental health through a variety of bills that will create a task force and integrate best practices and new technologies into school building codes.
swanmichaels: "Whenever I feel gloomy I watch a [baseball] game. The people aren’t sheep. The grass is so green." —Marianne Moore
Hornercom: Recognized as one of America’s best poets, Marianne Moore was known for her wit and irony, especially when it came to herself and her work.
POETSorg: 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 that there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
—Marianne Moore
Chadwick_Moore: Why does the democrat party hate Marianne so much? It’s really weird, right? Right? They’re the good guys, right?
terracottasip: I've discovered Observations
culturedarm: . . . hosted poetry readings by Allen Ginsberg as the beatnik coffeehouse Les Deux Mégots, birthed the first macrobiotic restaurant with Yoko Ono as one of its waitresses, and became a neighbourhood bookstore patronised by Lou Reed and Marianne Moore.
SelphanMmboga33: If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.,Marianne Moore,Artist, Doubt, Interest ,
dinaham17144585: You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.,Marianne Moore,faith, unity,
ordinarytimemag: Ben Sears: POETS Day! Marianne Moore
oldbuffalo: btw, it took me a while to find what I thought was nice and it's from the selection of Marianne Moore's letters.I found a pen nearby so I made a couple little marks. How she connected convenience and a third of a strain and circumstance. That just felt so nice and cozy.
agappleton: I love this poem by Marianne Moore. The mo(o)re you puzzle over it beautifullky patterned surface, the more its depth prove disturbing.
PicoIyer: “Hope is not hope until all ground for hope has vanished”—Marianne Moore
KyleDenner9: Psychology which explains everything
explains nothing,
and we are still in doubt.
-Marianne Moore
LeVostreGC: Thys may possiblye be the firste Marianne Moore + The Last of Us pseudo-joke evir
RobKruimel: Gary Moore - Empty Rooms (Live Montreux HD) By Gustavo Z
ordinarytimemag: Ben Sears: POETS Day! Marianne Moore
pfanderson: Poem of the week: To a Snail by Marianne Moore | Poetry | The Guardian
trumwill: POETS Day! Marianne Moore --
ordinarytimemag: Ben Sears: POETS Day! Marianne Moore
trumwill: Ben Sears: POETS Day! Marianne Moore
cgcpoems: 2 of 5 stars to The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore
AwfulWe: Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ~Marianne Moore
JohnLoony: Today I read the poem “An Octopus” by Marianne Moore. It is 201 lines long, and it took 12 minutes 42 seconds to read.
HowardA_AtLaw: This is even better than David Sirota, Roy Moore, and Marianne Williamson‘s digital director blocking me.
Gplastrik: "You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue"
-Marianne Moore
A Jelly-fish
MarkAJHolcomb: "The heart that gives, gathers." - Marianne Moore
DBodegwa: Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952–1970 96SOPFI
DavidMKatz1: Marianne Moore!
Luster_of_Nadir: "He who strongly feels, behaves.
The very bird, grown taller as he sings, steels his form straight up.
Though he is captive, his mighty singing says, satisfaction is a lowly thing, how pure a thing is joy.
This is mortality,
this is eternity."
-Marianne Moore.
beauoblivion: Demi Moore is so marianne coded
YahiaLababidi: Marianne Moore's "In Distrust of Merits":
O small dust of the earth/that walks so arrogantly...
YahiaLababidi: Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron
iron is iron till it is rust.
There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I have conquered in myself what
causes war
...
Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time.
— Marianne Moore, 1944
VeritaErpe: Remembering Marianne Moore (1887-1972). Always a joy to discuss her poems in class.
b2l_Literature: Marianne Moore - American Writers 50 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota...
atach: In 1955, the Ford Motor Company hired poet Marianne Moore to name their revolutionary new car. She suggested names like "Utopian Turtletop" and "The Intelligent Whale". Ford ended up going with their own name: The Edsel.
AmyBeePhD: 'A Grave' by Marianne Moore.
SofiaJoubert: *
"There never was a war that was not inward."
- Marianne Moore
JohnSte40163279: Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal.
ojalart: “I think each time I write that it may be the last time.” —Marianne Moore
parisreview: “I think each time I write that it may be the last time.” —Marianne Moore
kottke: In 1955, the Ford Motor Company hired poet Marianne Moore to name their revolutionary new car. She suggested names like "Utopian Turtletop" and "The Intelligent Whale". Ford ended up going with their own name: The Edsel.
OMGTheMess: The voice want the power to stop government decisions
They want power. Marcia Langton confirms it. She is one of two co-chairs of the referendum working group. ABC interview with Ali Moore.
enaie_maire: What's the longest you had to wait to have your paper published? My paper on Marianne Moore and Taoism was rejected twice and had three rewritings. It took a whole year for the first journal to inform me it got rejected. [1/2]
DavidMKatz1: "Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure," Marianne Moore once said. Register now for what promises to be a thrilling Poetry by the Sea conference this May in Madison CT on Long Island Sound--and consider taking my seminar on Moore!
mcnaughtongunn: Book Design: "Our 2022 holiday greeting revisits an unlikely collaboration between the Ford Motor Company and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore."
Fantomas2go: Marianne Moore almost saves Ford from the Edsel -
RainTaxiReview: Check out this collab between between the Ford Motor Company and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore:
aliner: “[Marianne] Moore’s wit, however, does not in the least imperil what she is about.”
A rather lovely compliment from Wallace Stevens, for wit imperils many things in poetry and life.
chriswlcsw: "Omissions are not accidents." -- Marianne Moore
Godgift64107811: Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
-Marianne Moore
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Godgift64107811: I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
-Marianne Moore
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Godgift64107811: Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
-Marianne Moore
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ojalart: “What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.” —Marianne Moore
skydog811: The Art of Poetry No. 4
parisreview: “What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.” —Marianne Moore
pauljimerson: It’s the birthday of poet Elizabeth Bishop, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (1911). She went to Vassar, where she really began her career as a poet. Her mentor was the poet Marianne Moore,
Ed__Talks: What are Years? By Marianne Moore
LiteraryVienna: “The cure for loneliness is solitude.”
Marianne Moore, Complete Prose
NewNotePoetry: We'll allow ChatGPT poetry submissions when they don't read like instruction manuals. We read one that opened with "This, dear reader, is an experimental poem."
The Marianne Moore of our time.
rata_callejera: Como dice Marianne Moore: how pure a thing is joy.
Kulambq: '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 that there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.'
~ Marianne Moore, from 'Poetry'
holdengraber: SILENCE
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
~ Marianne Moore
Died on this day, in 1972
InadeBree: ‘There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.’ -
Marianne Moore in Poetry Review, 1935 | George Platt Lynes, 1935 ©
holdengraber: "The cure for loneliness is solitude."
~ Marianne Moore
Died on this day, in 1972
HossainNilofar: “The cure for loneliness is solitude.”
― Marianne Moore
© Carmen Spitznagel
NathanFrancis__: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence."
Poems:
thecloudauthor: 'in which experience attests
that men have power
and sometimes one is made to feel it'
– Marianne Moore, from "Marriage"
Badass4Mothers: “Politics comes into the home with every pipe line of water. When we turn on the water spigot a whole stream of politics flows into our home. Having no voice in politics, the women cannot say whether it shall be a clean stream or a dirty stream.”
- Marianne Moore, 1915
Badass4Mothers: “Politics comes into the home with every pipe line of water. When we turn on the water spigot a whole stream of politics flows into our home. Having no voice in politics, the women cannot say whether it shall be a clean stream or a dirty stream.”
- Marianne Moore, 1915
Badass4Mothers: “Politics comes into the home with every pipe line of water. When we turn on the water spigot a whole stream of politics flows into our home. Having no voice in politics, the women cannot say whether it shall be a clean stream or a dirty stream.”
- Marianne Moore, 1915
AsaYounts: In ninth grade English, Mrs. X required us to memorize and recite a poem, so I went and asked the Topeka High librarian to direct me to the shortest poem she knew, and she suggested Marianne Moore’s “Poetry,” which, in the 1967 version, reads in its entirety:
rinkumathew: "Omissions are not accidents." -- Marianne Moore
No Straussian could say it any better!
TheHMProA: "Originality is... a by-product of sincerity."– Marianne Moore
AnnaMCarroll2: There never was a war that didn’t begin from within.
Marianne Moore, poet
thecloudauthor: – Marianne Moore, "Those Various Scalpels,"
susanwo89207400: Oh my gosh, remember becoming Princess Sue HSai in fifth grade play, “the dreadful dragon.” Slipping back to that self, peering out…Looping back and forth. On Robert Bly’s dragon that can fly with poet Marianne Moore who had the courage to write… “Poetry? I too dislike it.”
bsaspoetry: Poet Marianne Moore, 81, threw out the first pitch at the opening of the 1968 baseball season at Yankee Stadium on April 10th, against the Los Angeles Angels.
_ChrisDeWeese: Interesting item for Marianne Moore fans- her first book, published in 1921, was done so by her friends, without her consent, and she was furious. Which makes signed copies of it rare to non-existent. But Freeman's is auctioning this one on Wednesday...
Bloomhunmai: NIMRIT DESERVES TROPHY
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. - Marianne Moore..
MarkAJHolcomb: "The heart that gives, gathers." - Marianne Moore
BeineckeLibrary: Marianne Moore inscription to Jean Starr Untermeyer, January 29, 1955, in Poems, London: Egoist Press, 1921. Copies in the collections
RepublicanCoryR: “As a member of the [Health and Human Services Committee], we stand to really hold their feet to the wire and make sure that they are doing everything that we possibly can to make sure that we don’t … lose another child,” said Sen. Marianne Moore, R-Washington.
RepublicanCoryR: “We’re sending these young caseworkers out there to do a job where they’re just out of college. They may not have the experience and we really do need to have that...” said Sen. Marianne Moore.
BrennanCenter: The Supreme Court could use Moore v. Harper to reshape the election systems of the 50 states as it pleases. Here’s how:
randomflavormtg: "O to be a dragon . . . of silkworm size or immense . . ."-Marianne Moore, "O to Be a Dragon"
dorsalstream: Quite a few, but often it's this one from Marianne Moore's poem "A Carriage from Sweden":
"Sweden / you have a runner called the Deer, who / when he's won a race, likes to run / more"
amadonegro: “There are more things beyond this fiddle”.
Marianne Moore
GaiusCanuleius: I may, I might, I must
If you will tell me why the fen
appears impassable, I then
will tell you why I think that
I can get across it if I try.
—Marianne Moore.
En poemas que me permiten dormir en paz. Y la traducción de impassable se me hace muy bella: Infraqueable.
1followernodad: From Marianne Moore’s poem What Are Years
neumanmd: Some names suggested by poet Marianne Moore to the Ford motor company in 1955 for the car they eventually named the Edsel:
Resilient Bullet
Ford Silver Sword
Mongoose Civique
Varsity Stroke
Pastelogram
Andante con Moto
Utopian Turtletop
sidelinesushi: Marianne Sheridan would’ve loved Demi Moore by Phoebe Bridgers
