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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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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. – Rita Dove

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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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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those whove gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. – Rita Dove

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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. – Alexander McQueen

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Thomas Jefferson once said, We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. – Ronald Reagan

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