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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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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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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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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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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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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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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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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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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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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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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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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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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 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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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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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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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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