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Rita Dove

"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."

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"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
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"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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"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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"Libraries are where it all begins."
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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
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"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."
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"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
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"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."
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