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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
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Rita Frances Dove
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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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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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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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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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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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
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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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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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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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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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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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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 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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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 think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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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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