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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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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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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. – 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 was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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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