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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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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

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