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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
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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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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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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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
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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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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 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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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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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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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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