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Rita Dove

"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Rita Dove
"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."

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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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