Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a highâ€"sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand: the bat holding on upside down or in quest of something to eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf under a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the baseâ€" ball fan, the statistitian â€" nor is it valid to discriminate against "business documents and schoolâ€"books"; all these phenomena are important. â€""Poetry," Marianne Moore What is important, according to Moore?.
