Cachets on FDCs (United States, 1990-1991)

Scott No.: 2449

Date of Issue:  April 18, 1990

City of Issue:  Brooklyn, NY

Stamp:  Marianne Moore

Cachet Maker:  Maximum Card

 

Marianne Moore (1887-1972), an American poet, is perhaps most famous for a poem entitled “Poetry” , which begins with some of the best lines in American Literature: 

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important
                beyond all this fiddle.
   Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it,
                one discovers that there is in
   it after all, a place for the genuine.

Later, we find the lines that occasion these cachets: 

One must make a distinction
    however: when dragged into prominence by half
                     poets,
                the result is not poetry,
    nor till the autocrats 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.

Cachet Maker:  Steve Wilson