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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

Rita Dove

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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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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'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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At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.
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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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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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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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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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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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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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Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?
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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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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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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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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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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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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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