Marianne Moore Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

  Marianne Moore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Imagination

  'Poetry' (1935)

• ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Hands

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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