During his stay in England, Moraes wrote the verse collection "Novos poemas" ("New Poems"). He was married (by proxy) to Beatriz Azevedo de Mello, with whom he had two children: filmmaker Suzana de Moraes and Pedro. In 1941, he returned to Brazil and worked as a film critic for the newspaper "A Manhã" ("The Morning"), as a contributor to the literary journal "Clima" ("Climate"), and at the Banking Employees' Institute of Social Security, the public pension fund for workers in banking institutions.