Thomas Sturge Moore



Thomas Sturge Moore (4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944) was an English poet, art-historian, dramatist and wood-engraver.

Quotes

 * Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.
 * "The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.


 * For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
 * "Reason Enough", line 7; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.


 * Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!
 * "Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.


 * "Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum, Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come', Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – " "O let me hear!"
 * "A Duet", line 5; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 78.

Criticism

 * In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.
 * Yvor Winters Uncollected Essays and Reviews (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1973) p. 139.


 * A sheep in sheep's clothing.
 * Edmund Gosse, quoted in Ferris Greenslet Under the Bridge: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943) p. 104.
 * Sometimes misattributed to Yeats.