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“Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.”

Quote by Marianne Moore

Book:Complete Poems

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This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career. more

Author

American poet known for her unique modernist style and profound philosophical insights. Her poetry is concise and insightful, often exploring themes of nature, art, and the human condition. more

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“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.”

Fans Blue Opening Ashes Shells Injured Crow Adjusting

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.”

Feels Home Events Brooklyn

Book:The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore

Source: The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore

“What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?”

Self Able Attitude Prove Weapons Sticks Defense Streams Self Defense

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times”

Victory Ties Thirty Grapes Knots

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

School Careers College High School Yeah Guitar Bass Thumbs Bye Bye Bye Bass Guitar

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“Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!”

Men Night Sun Mankind Moon Excellence Beast Day And Night Splendor

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.”

Ifs Turns Consciousness Sea Ocean Bounds Noise Usual Bells Twists Lighthouse Volition Buoys

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”

Looks Sea Return Obvious Characteristics Repression Collectors

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise”

Stills Eye Faces Groups Mouths Legs Units

Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”

Proof Confusion Submit Oath Herod

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems