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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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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."
Love
"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
Poetry
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."
Talent
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
Favorite
"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."
People
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
Poetry
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."
Writing
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
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