Marianne Moore Quotes about Water

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The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Sweet, Air, Water

Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.5, Penguin

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Sheep, Water, Camels

Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.194, Penguin