We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to … - Rita Dove

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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

Rita Dove

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.

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