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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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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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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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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. – Norman MacCaig

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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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