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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by Rita Dove
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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