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Rita Dove Quotes
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. - Rita Dove Quotes
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. - Rita Dove Quotes
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. - Rita Dove Quotes
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. - Rita Dove Quotes
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. - Rita Dove Quotes
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. - Rita Dove Quotes
Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then youre already on the way to poetry. Its about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. - Rita Dove Quotes
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesnt mean theyre going to make it. - Rita Dove Quotes
I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But thats only the first step. - Rita Dove Quotes
I didnt know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. - Rita Dove Quotes
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. - Rita Dove Quotes
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. - Rita Dove Quotes
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasnt a person. - Rita Dove Quotes
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. - Rita Dove Quotes
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. - Rita Dove Quotes
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. - Rita Dove Quotes
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. - Rita Dove Quotes
I think reading Shakespeares plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. - Rita Dove Quotes
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. - Rita Dove Quotes
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. - Rita Dove Quotes
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! - Rita Dove Quotes
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. - Rita Dove Quotes
I write short stories, and I wrote a play. - Rita Dove Quotes
If they dont read, if they dont love reading; if they dont find themselves compulsively reading, I dont think theyre really a writer. - Rita Dove Quotes
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. - Rita Dove Quotes
In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets dont enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. - Rita Dove Quotes
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 Quotes
It really wasnt until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. - Rita Dove Quotes
Its the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. - Rita Dove Quotes
Its unfortunate that sometimes in schools, theres this need to have things quantified and graded. - Rita Dove Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Alive Back Became Being Childhood Come First
Have Human Larger Laureate Made Make Means
Moments More Myself Poet Public Realize Really
Spirit There Think This Those Time True
Utterance Voice When Where Yourself
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