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Rita Dove quotes: Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine. Since she's discovered
men would rather drown
than nibble,
she does just
fine.
Rita Dove quotes: It really wasn't 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. It really wasn't 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: I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.
Rita Dove quotes: My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove quotes: I write short stories, and I wrote a play. I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Rita Dove quotes: By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other. By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.
Rita Dove quotes: Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing. Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing.
Rita Dove quotes: What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world? What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?
Rita Dove quotes: We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is. We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
Rita Dove quotes: When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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. 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 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. 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 think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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. 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: In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
Rita Dove quotes: I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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 wasn't a person. 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 wasn't a person.
Rita Dove quotes: I was pirouette and flourish,I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names? I was pirouette and flourish,
I was filigree and flame.
How could I count my blessings
when I didn't know their names?
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. 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: Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow? Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?
Rita Dove quotes: To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
Rita Dove quotes: Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
Rita Dove quotes: I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually. I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.
Rita Dove quotes: The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
Rita Dove quotes: When I was young, I was older than I am today. When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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. 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 make a discovery in a poem as I write it. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
Rita Dove quotes: Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Rita Dove quotes: I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move. I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
Rita Dove quotes: Sometimesa word is found so right it tremblesat the slightest explanation. Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove quotes: A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it. A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
Rita Dove quotes: If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're 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. If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
Rita Dove quotes: If you cannot be free, be a mystery. If you cannot be free, be a mystery.
Rita Dove quotes: Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate. Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.
Rita Dove quotes: I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
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. 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: Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shitpure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy. Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy.
Rita Dove quotes: If you can't be free, be a mystery. If you can't be free, be a mystery.
Rita Dove quotes: The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Rita Dove quotes: Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither. Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.
Rita Dove quotes: Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita Dove quotes: For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Rita Dove quotes: I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic. I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
Rita Dove quotes: Libraries are where it all begins. Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove quotes: Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree. Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.
Rita Dove quotes: It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove quotes: Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
Rita Dove quotes: I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
Rita Dove quotes: The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove quotes: I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.
Rita Dove quotes: What writing does is to reveal. What writing does is to reveal.
Rita Dove quotes: Women invented misery, but we don't understand it. Women invented misery,
but we don't understand it.
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. 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 believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
Rita Dove quotes: Don't be so fast, you're all you've got. Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
Rita Dove quotes: I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves
Rita Dove quotes: Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand. Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.
Rita Dove quotes: It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded. It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
Rita Dove quotes: I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
Rita Dove quotes: There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Rita Dove quotes: If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi. If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi.
Rita Dove quotes: Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more. Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
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. 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: Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove quotes: I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

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