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Rita Dove

"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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"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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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

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"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

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"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

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"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."
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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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"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."
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"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
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"What writing does is to reveal."
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"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
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"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
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"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
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"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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