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Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Source: In The Quotable Quotations Book, by Alec Lewis, 1980.
-- Rita Dove, (Aug 28 1952-____), US poet, educator; Her poetry in Thomas and Beulah, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; chosen poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1993.

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