Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Rita Dove
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
Professor
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
Think
Alive
Thinking
Reading
Utter
Ability
Strangers
Young
Resurrection
Come
Shakespeare
Play
Plays
Important
Extremely
Make
Stranger
More quotes by Rita Dove
If you can't be free, be a mystery.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
Rita Dove
Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove
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.
Rita Dove
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
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.
Rita Dove
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
Rita Dove
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
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove
