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Quote by Rita Dove
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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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsbergs importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! – Rita Dove

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Death
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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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Learning
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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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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

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Poetry

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Poetry

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. – George Will

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Poetry

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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Poetry

Random Quotes

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. – Ralph Ellison

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Endings

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. – Italian Proverb

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Men & Women

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Virtue

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. – Betty Rollin

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Feminism