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Libraries are where it all begins.

Rita Dove

American Poet

Born: Aug 28, 1952

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Libraries, Begins, Where

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Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman

Collected Poems: 1974-2004

Collected Poems: 1974-2004

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Laura Bush

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Wisdom Knowledge Library World Lost Believe I Believe I Believe That Sums Libraries Scant Vast Throughout Attention Dies Burned Elder

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury

Future Past Libraries No Future Without

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? Margaret Atwood

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Alexis Carrel

Reality Dangerous Fog Long Too Those Libraries Atmosphere Like Lecture Up Them Rooms Themselves Us Separates Who Shut

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. Amitava Kumar

History Culture Cinema Nation Books Monuments Libraries Smaller Houses Erect History Books Squares Survives Spaces Grand Village

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus

Me Made Libraries Poets Am Greek Little Professor Assistance

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings

Wisdom Learning Sleeps Everywhere Libraries Tiptoe Awake Wide Wide Awake

Libraries can take the place of God. Umberto Eco

God Libraries Take Place

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