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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.
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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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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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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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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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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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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If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
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At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.
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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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I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?
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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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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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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