Author: Marianne Moore

If external action is effete And rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as when in a Bible […]

not of silver nor of coral, But of weatherbeaten laurel. Here, he introduced a sea Uniform like tapestry; Here, a […]

Man looking into the sea, Taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have […]

“No water so still as the Dead fountains of Versailles.” No swan, With swart blind look askance And gondoliering legs, […]

Although the aepyornis Or roc that lived in Madagascar, and The moa are extinct, The camel-sparrow, linked With them in […]

has not altered; A place as kind as it is green, The greenest place I’ve never seen. Every name is […]

you’ve seen a strawberry That’s had a struggle; yet Was, where the fragments met, A hedgehog or a star- Fish […]

My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, Have to be shown Longfellow’s grave Nor the glass […]

wade Through black jade. Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps; opening and shutting itself like An Injured […]

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting And baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either How it will go […]