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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
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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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.
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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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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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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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A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
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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 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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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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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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