Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
More Quotes from Marianne Craig Moore:
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, 'Again the sun anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.'Marianne Craig Moore
The wrinkles progress among themselves in a phalanxbeautiful under networks of foam, and fade breathlessly while the sea rustles in and out of the seaweed.
Marianne Craig Moore
HE MADE THIS SCREEN not of silver nor of coral, but of weatherbeaten laurel. Here, he introduced a sea uniform like tapestry here, a fig-tree there, a face there, a dragon circling space designating here, a bower there, a pointed passion-flower.
Marianne Craig Moore
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
Marianne Craig Moore
I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
Marianne Craig Moore
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
Marianne Craig Moore
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: ash, heaps, mussel, shuttingAs favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere
Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
Jo Stafford
This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
Philip Kaufman