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The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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The Paper Nautilus - For authorities whose hopes

The Paper Nautilus Add to anthology × Load audio player Marianne Moore 1887 - 1972 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 and smooth- edged inner surface glossy as the sea, the watchful maker of it guards it day and night; she scarcely eats until the eggs are hatched. Buried eight-fold in her eight arms, for she is in a sense a devil- fish, her glass ramshorn-cradled freight is hid but

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