Moore, Marianne Craig

US poet

acting editor of "The Dial" 1925-1929

wrote poetry collections "The Pangolin and Other Verse" 1936, "What Are Years" 1941, "Nevertheless" 1944, "Collected Poems" 1951 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1952)

Bollingen Prize 1951 (1st female recipient)

• "The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
• "In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."
• "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them."
• "Originality is... a by-product of sincerity."
• "Originality is... a by-product of sincerity."