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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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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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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 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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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden

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Poetry

We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. – Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

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