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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
Professor
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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Fast

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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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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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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 write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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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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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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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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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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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now
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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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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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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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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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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 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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What writing does is to reveal.
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Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
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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.
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