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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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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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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've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.
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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'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 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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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
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My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.
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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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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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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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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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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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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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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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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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