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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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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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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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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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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 write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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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 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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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
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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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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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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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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 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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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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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now
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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.
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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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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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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