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Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just

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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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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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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