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Poetry: Not til poets among us can be 'literalists of imagination' -- above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them,' shall we have it.

Source: In Say It Again, by Dorothy Uris, 1979.
-- Marianne Moore, (Nov 15 1887-1972), US poet, editor; She was noted for witty intelligent poems in Observations, 1924; won Pulitzer for Collected Poems, 1951.

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