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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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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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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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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 carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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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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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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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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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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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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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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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
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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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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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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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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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