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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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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
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Akron
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Rita Frances Dove
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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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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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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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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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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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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 they don't read, if they don't love reading if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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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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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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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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