| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40764 |
| QUOTATION: | Grown onto every inch of plate, except
Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
The origins of art. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Howard Moss (b. 1922), U.S. poet. Water Island (l. 16–20). . .
Contemporary American Poets, The; American Poetry since 1940. Mary Strand, ed. (1969) World Publishing Company. |
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