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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Rita Frances Dove
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack of respect artists got here. In my heart, I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
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We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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!
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Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?
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What writing does is to reveal.
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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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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.
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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.
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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
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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.
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