Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image ““...discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...”” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There was the sheer Antarctic landscape, and the mind moving across it like a brush on canvas, until the brush was laid aside, and… — Elizabeth Arthur Copy Share Image
“I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“And from th’ Antarctic Pole eastward behold As much more land, which never was descried, Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.” — Sidney Knight Copy Share Image
“If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that such horrors… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.” — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
