Garden Quote by Marianne Moore

“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"…

— Marianne Moore

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

— Marianne Moore

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its…

— Marianne Moore

“Literalists of the imagination”

— Mary Ann Moore

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“In this world we come across poetic imagination and not Truth.”

— Mohan Gaitonde

“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]”

— Harold Bloom

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

— Jean Anouilh