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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.
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Rita Frances Dove
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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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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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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 see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
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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 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 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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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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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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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'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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What writing does is to reveal.
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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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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
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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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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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Libraries are where it all begins.
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