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Rita Dove

"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"

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"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"

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Donna Grant

"I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!"

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Donna Grant

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

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Donna Grant

"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."

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Donna Grant

"Is safety the 'dream' that will kill all of my other 'dreams?' For the truth is, no 'real' dream is safe."

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Donna Grant

"World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams."

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Donna Grant

"You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully!"

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Donna Grant

"I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it."

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Donna Grant

"I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment."

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Donna Grant

"Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness."

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Donna Grant

"Every great dream, meet an opposing views. The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality."

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

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Rita Dove
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."

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Rita Dove
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

Poetry

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Rita Dove
"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."

Love

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Rita Dove
"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."

Writing

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Rita Dove
"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."

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Rita Dove
"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."

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Rita Dove
"Libraries are where it all begins."

Literature

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Rita Dove
"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

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Rita Dove
"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."

Joy

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