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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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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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Rita Dove
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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Rita Dove
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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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Age
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better. – John D. Rockefeller

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Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living. – Jamie Foxx

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. – Jean de La Fontaine

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My number one goal was not getting As – and I proved it. I was a C student. You have to be ready to learn. If youre not interesting in learning, it doesnt work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. – Brian Lamb

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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. – Camille Paglia

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. – Constantin Stanislavski

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Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli

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