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

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne Moore

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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