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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls,

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

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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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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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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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