original text:

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

about the quoted person:american poet.

moore was Born near St. Louis, Missouri, in 1887. She attended Bryn Mawr College and received her B.

A. in 1909. Following graduation, Moore studied typing at Carlisle Commercial College, and from 1911 to 1915 she was employed as a school teacher at the Carlisle Indian School. In 1918, Moore and her mother moved to New York City, and in 1921, she became an assistant at the New York Public Library. She began to meet other poets, such as William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, and to contribute to 'the Dial', a prestigious literary magazine. She served as acting editor of 'the Dial' from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as Ezra Pound, Williams, and H. D., Moore's poems were published in 'the Egoist', an English magazine, beginning in 1915. In 1921 Moore's first bookwas published, 'Poems', without her knowledge.

Moore was widely recognized for her work; among her many honors were the Bollingen prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote with the freedom characteristic of the other modernist poets, often incorporating quotes from other sources into the text, yet her use of language was always extraordinarily condensed and precise, capable of suggesting a variety of ideas and associations within a single, compact image. She was particularly fond of animals, and much of her imagery is drawn from the natural world. She was also a great fan of professional baseball and an admirer of Muhammad Ali (see what's my name) , for whom she wrote the liner notes to his record 'I Am the Greatest!'Marianne Moore died in New York City in 1972.