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Rita Dove

"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."

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"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."

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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

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"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."

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"And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. "I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. "You blew everything away."

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"A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world."

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"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."

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"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are home to each other now."

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"How'd you know he was the one?""I didn't know. I don't think either of us knew."Heather rolled her eyes. "Neal knew - he proposed to you.""It's not like that," Georgie said. "You'll see. It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right."

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Amber Hurdle

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."

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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
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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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"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
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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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"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."
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"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."
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"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
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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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"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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"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's 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!"
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