“Poetry...... a place for the genuine,Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise”

“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor 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.”

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poetry.”

“Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.”

“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”

“Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.”