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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then youre already on the way to poetry. Its about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. – Rita Dove

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Trust
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The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. – Alan Bleasdale

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. – Bill Bryson

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To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. – Thomas Paine

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Fairness forces you – even when youre writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done – to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. – Michael Pollan

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Too much zeal spoils everything. – Proverb

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