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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
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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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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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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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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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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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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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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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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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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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.
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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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If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.
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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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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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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 you can't be free, be a mystery.
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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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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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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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