Poetry Quote by Marianne Moore

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…

— 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

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

— Dan Simmons

“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,…

— Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

— Michael Faraday

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole…

— George Orwell

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there are any such things as…

— A.E. Housman