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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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 think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
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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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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 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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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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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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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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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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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
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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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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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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 write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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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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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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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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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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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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