"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this……" — Rita Dove
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
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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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More Graded Quotes
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in…
— C.S. Lewis
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific…
— John Dewey
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All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity…
— Unknown Author
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As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that…
— Niles Eldredge
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The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting…
— Jamie O'Neill
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Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in…
— Neil Postman
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the…
— Claude Monet
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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these…
— B R Ambedkar
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In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded...
— Walter J. Phillips
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Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.
— Wayne Dyer
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