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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is

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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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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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 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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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

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[P]oetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch… – Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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My chief aim is to make a poem. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are. – R.S. Thomas (1913–2000)

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