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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
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Rita Frances Dove
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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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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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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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As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
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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 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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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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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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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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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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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 think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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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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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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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 library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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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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