Marble

Marble

Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.

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Famous quotes containing the word marble:

    “My eye-balls are glass,
    my limbs marble,
    my face fixed
    in its marble mask.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Poets that lasting Marble seek
    Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
    We write in Sand, our Language grows,
    And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    “The marble not yet carved can hold the form Of every thought the greatest artist has.”
    —Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)