"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."

Age, Time, Poetry, Sex

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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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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."

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"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

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"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

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"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."

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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."

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"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."

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