“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
About Marianne Moore
15 November 1887–5 February 1972
Marianne Craig Moore emerged from the American Modernist movement as one of its most distinctive and enigmatic voices, a poet whose meticulous attention to detail and refusal to conform to conventional poetic forms revolutionized twentieth-century verse. Born on November 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri, and passing…