"I was not interested in doing the plot……" — Rita Dove
"I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation? . . . One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions."
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable,…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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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…
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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…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process…
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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…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I…
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"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on…
— John Green
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According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for…
— John Green
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.…
— John Green
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps…
— Benito Mussolini
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Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth…
— Tacitus
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I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be…
— N. T. Wright
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Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great,…
— John Ortberg
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It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you…
— Larry McMurtry
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I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have…
— Larry McMurtry
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That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge."…
— Johnny Depp
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Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not,"…
— Kate DiCamillo
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The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter…
— Rick Riordan
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