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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.
Rita Dove

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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 28, 1952
Nationality:
American
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Carl Sandburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
Bryant H. McGill

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