"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
-Rita Dove
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"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.“
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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
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"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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"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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"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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"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early."
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"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
-Aldrich Ames
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"We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side."
-Willie Green
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
-Shigenori Maruyama
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