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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic abo

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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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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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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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove

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Poetry
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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Poetry

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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Poetry

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. – Anon.

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Poetry

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