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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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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 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 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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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. – Ajay Naidu

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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. – Diane Wakoski

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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