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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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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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. – Rita Dove

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Learning
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those whove gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. – Rita Dove

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Im hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty. – Louise Jameson

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Poetry

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Poetry

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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Poetry

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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Poetry

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Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. – Author Unknown

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car

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. – William Blake

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