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Marianne Moore

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

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

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."
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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
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"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
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"There never was a war that was not inward."
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"Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."
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"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
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"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."
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