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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics but kind of civic engagement and that kind of thing except I tended to think 'Well do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before it's impossible.
Quotes By Rita Dove
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit we have no choice but to...
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that for a minute the clouds...
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the...
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the...
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is you need...
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right...
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls because I...
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My father is a chemist my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us...
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to...
Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...