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Rita Dove

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

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"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

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"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
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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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"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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"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."
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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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