Quote by Rita Dove
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. - Rita

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – 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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Poetry
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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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amazing
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Rita Dove
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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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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. – Horace, quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern,

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Poetry

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Poetry

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry

I love romantic poetry. – Richard Dawkins

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Poetry

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The mystical poetry of William Blakes artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. – Bruce Dickinson

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People need dreams, theres as much nourishment in em as food. – Dorothy Gilman

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A lot of good love can happen in ten years. – Jim Carrey

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