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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
Explore more quotes by Rita Dove
"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."
"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!"
"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."
"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."
"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
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