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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
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My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.
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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
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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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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
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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 think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
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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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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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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
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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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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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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
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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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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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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