--- title: "4 Carol Muske-Dukes Quotes - Famous Novelist (Dear Digby)" description: "Carol Muske-Dukes is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011)." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b193/author-carol-muske-dukes-67992.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Carol Muske-Dukes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b193/author-carol-muske-dukes-67992.jpg) # Carol Muske-Dukes (1945) Novelist United States **4** quotes in **69** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Carol Muske-Dukes is a novelist from the United States, best known for *Dear Digby*. ## Quick Facts About Carol Muske-Dukes Born December 17, 1945 Nationality United States Profession Novelist Notable works Dear Digby Spouse David Dukes ## About Carol Muske-Dukes Carol Muske-Dukes is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011). Her most recent book of poetry, Sparrow, chronicling the love and loss of Muske-Dukes’ late husband, actor David Dukes, was a National Book Award finalist. ## Awards & Honors Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ## Quotes by Carol Muske-Dukes > [Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-muske-dukes/poetry-can-save-the-world-i-m-a-real-believer-in-its-power-of-healing/) Carol Muske-Dukes [Believer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/511/carol-muske-dukes-67992_believer_poetry-can-save-the-world-i-m-a-real-bel_190120.png) > [Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-muske-dukes/some-years-ago-not-long-after-i-moved-to-los-angeles-from-new-york-i/) Carol Muske-Dukes [Career](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/career/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc9/carol-muske-dukes-67992_career_some-years-ago-not-long-after-i-moved-to_1164185.png) > [Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-muske-dukes/anna-journey-in-her-new-book-of-poems-vulgar-remedies-creates-an/) Carol Muske-Dukes [Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b8/carol-muske-dukes-67992_adults_anna-journey-in-her-new-book-of-poems-vu_1648568.png) > [“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-muske-dukes/recently-a-judge-of-the-prestigious-2014-british-forward-prize-for/) Carol Muske-Dukes [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/carol-muske-dukes-67992_art_recently-a-judge-of-the-prestigious-2014_2998385.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-muske-dukes/#itemlist", "name": "Carol Muske-Dukes Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Poetry can save the world. 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The response to it confirmed that people of all ages think about poetry as a kind of inspired music, embodying beauty and insight. On one hand, poetry has always flowed from music, as rap and hip-hop remind us big-time. Rappers know how poetry walks and talks. So we have music, or deeply felt recitations of poems that belong to collective memory. On the other hand, we have overly instructive prose poems, as well as the experiments of certain critical ideologies, or conceptual performance art. 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