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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 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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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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Imagination
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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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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. – Joseph Roux

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Poetry

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

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

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A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. – Abraham Lincoln

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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. – Brent Scowcroft

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