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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!
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Akron
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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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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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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'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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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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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
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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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What writing does is to reveal.
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