Chromosomes Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image “I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chromosomes Clusters Plans Procedures
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain. — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort… — Don Paterson 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
“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed....… — Ronan O'Rahilly Copy Share Image
The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
