"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"

-- Rita Dove

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“We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.”

Source : 1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.
“Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”
“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.”
“...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”
“As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.”
“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.”
“She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
“Opposition is the very spur of love.”

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