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

 

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


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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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