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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
Professor
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
Brushed
Touched
Wings
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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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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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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
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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.
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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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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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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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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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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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp I shed skins.
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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.
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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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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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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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