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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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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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Poetry
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsbergs importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! – Rita Dove

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. Its one of the great things poetry does. – Robert Morgan

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