An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
has not altered;— a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen.Every name is a tune.Denunciations do ...
Although the aepyornisor roc that lived in Madagascar, andthe moa are extinct,the camel-sparrow, linkedwith them in size--the large sparrowXenophon saw ...
The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out, echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny ...
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather thanan asset - that in view of the fact ...
You make me think of many men Once met, to be forgot again Or merely resurrected In a parenthesis of wit That found them ...
For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters' comforts? Not for these ...
has not altered;-- a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is ...
wade through black jade. Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured ...
not of silver nor of coral, but of weatherbeaten laurel. Here, he introduced a sea uniform like tapestry; here, a ...
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
you've seen a strawberry that's had a struggle; yet was, where the fragments met, a hedgehog or a star- fish ...
If external action is effete and rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as when in a Bible ...
The illustration is nothing to you without the application. You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down into ...
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, ...
Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary - Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly - born of the sea ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories