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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
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 Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.