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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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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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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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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. – Rita Dove

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Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. – J. Michael Straczynski

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. – Vanessa Redgrave

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Poetry

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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