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:

    “We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

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

    “Interred beneath this marble stone
    Lie Saunt’ring Jack and Idle Joan.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)