It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. - Rita Dove

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. - Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) quotes