The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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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.Rita Dove
If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
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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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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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