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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
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Akron
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Rita Frances Dove
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now
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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
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Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
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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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