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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

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

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"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

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"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

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"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

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Amber Hurdle

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"People always make choices, always take sides!"

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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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"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."
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"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
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"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
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"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!"
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"What writing does is to reveal."
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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
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"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
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"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
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