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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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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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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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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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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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I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.
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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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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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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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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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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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A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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