<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Paper Nautilus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For authorities whose hopes<br>are shaped by mercenaries?<br>Writers entrapped by<br>teatime fame and by<br>commuters' comforts? Not for these<br>the paper nautilus<br>constructs her thin glass shell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Giving her perishable<br>souvenir of hope, a dull<br>white outside and smooth-<br>edged inner surface<br>glossy as the sea, the watchful<br>maker of it guards it<br>day and night; she scarcely</div><div style="margin:10px 0">eats until the eggs are hatched.<br>Buried eight-fold in her eight<br>arms, for she is in<br>a sense a devil-<br>fish, her glass ram'shorn-cradled freight<br>is hid but is not crushed;<br>as Hercules, bitten</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by a crab loyal to the hydra,<br>was hindered to succeed,<br>the intensively<br>watched eggs coming from<br>the shell free it when they are freed,--<br>leaving its wasp-nest flaws<br>of white on white, and close-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">laid Ionic chiton-folds<br>like the lines in the mane of<br>a Parthenon horse,<br>round which the arms had<br>wound themselves as if they knew love<br>is the only fortress<br>strong enough to trust to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marianne+Moore">Marianne Moore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453860" data-title="The Paper Nautilus de Marianne Moore" data-description="For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters' comforts? Not for these the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell. Giving her perishable souvenir of hope, a dull white outside an..."></div> </div> </div>

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