“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” LifeInspirationalArtRealPoetryDesignCreatingGardenPoetry IsPoeticImaginaryToads Author:Marianne Moore
“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.” IfsRealHandsMaterialsDemandGardenGenuineImaginaryRaw MaterialsToadsRawness Book:Observations: Poems Source: Observations: Poems
“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 toads in them." shall we have it.” RealImaginationPoetGardenImaginaryToadsInspectionTrivialityInsolence Author:Marianne Moore