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Rita Dove

"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person."

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"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person."

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Donna Grant

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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Donna Grant

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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Donna Grant

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

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Donna Grant

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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Donna Grant

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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Donna Grant

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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Donna Grant

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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Donna Grant

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

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Donna Grant

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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Donna Grant

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

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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
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."

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Rita Dove
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."

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Rita Dove
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."

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Rita Dove
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

Poetry

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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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