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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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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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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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Imagination
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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Then, in what beauteous dress will Poetry oft clothe or decorate what in Prose is but too frequently flat and commonplace. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

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Poetry

Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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Poetry

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Poetry

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. – Graham Joyce

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!—gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all—five pounds—and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. – Guy Laliberte

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People still kill in the name of religion. We havent evolved to the point where were one tribe called humans. – Rachel Weisz

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