Marianne Moore

Man looking into the sea,taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to it yourself,it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,but you cannot stand in the middle of this;the sea has nothing to give but a well exca...

This institution,perhaps one should say enterpriseout of respect for whichone says one need not change one's mindabout a thing one has believed in,requiring public promisesof one's intentionto fulfill a private obligation:
I wonder what Adam ...

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine
Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair t...

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 pig or porcupine, the rhino with horned snout– everything is battle-dressed
Pig-f...

Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away — the detached first claw on his foreleg which corresponds to the thumb, retracted to its tip; the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above ...

Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary - Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity
Not always rosemary - since the flight to Egypt, blooming indifferently...

My father used to say,"Superior people never make long visits,have to be shown Longfellow's gravenor the glass flowers at Harvard
Self reliant like the cat —that takes its prey to privacy,the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace fro...