"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
-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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"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."
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"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."
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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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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
-Steve Jobs
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee
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