The lines or phrases from the poem "Poetry" in which Marianne Moore use to show the impact of great poetry are:
"Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers that there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful;"
Marianne Moore in her poem “Poetry” explains the reasons why she dislikes poems. According to her view, she finds the poems not to be genuine. She says that the things which are essential and vital for daily use should be the themes of poetry. The poets who do not write on these topics are bad poets for her and the famous poets who write about petty things too fall in the column of bad poets.
