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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents inst

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. – 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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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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amazing
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I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesnt strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. – Todd Rokita

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The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. Its about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that its worth getting your teeth into. – Neil Jordan

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Im thinking about learning a few new things – like taking classical guitar lessons – and Id like to bring what I learn into hard rock. – Mick Mars

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin

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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. – Henry Fielding

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Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

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Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say 65-66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that. – Robert Adamson

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It would seem that Nature has prescribed to every one from the moment of his birth certain limits for virtue and vice. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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