#laureate

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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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children. ↗

— John Pople

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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Poets sing our human music for us. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. ↗

— Steven T. Katz

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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. ↗

— David Douglass

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