“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore 
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
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