Rita Dove's Quote - There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading ser

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading ser

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote 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 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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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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The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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Poetry is not always words. – Terri Guillemets, “Moonglow over the mountain,” 1991

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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. – Stephen Sondheim

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