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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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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – 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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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you cant imagine something that has never existed before, its impossible. – Rita Dove

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – its some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. – Jack Prelutsky

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As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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