| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40610 |
| QUOTATION: | My father used to say, Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave or the glass flowers at Harvard. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marianne Moore (18871972), U.S. poet. Silence, Selected Poems (1935). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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