Collectors Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image “the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collectors Looks Ocean Return Sea
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own… — Alice Oswald 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
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that… — Nick Gravenites Copy Share Image
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
