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 Collection

 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

 Scott No.:  2549
Date of Issue:  May 31, 1991
City of Issue:  Cuddebackville, NY   
Stamp:  "Muddler Minnow" (Fishing Lures)
Cachet Maker:  Bedford Cachets