The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Marianne Moore... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
Marianne MooreThe 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 MooreIf we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Marianne Moore