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Rita Dove Quotes

American - Poet | August 28, 1952 -

I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.

Best Night Person Midnight Six

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Angel Wings Being Something Touched

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.

American Dream People Think American

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Life You Complaining Something Your

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Love Process Enjoy Things Working

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry Language Powerful Most

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Poetry Small Measure Nothing Become

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Poetry Rest Reading Library Plan

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.

Time Shadow Curious Think Sound

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Equality Name Never Divided Should

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Yourself True Spirit Human Spirit

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

Black And White King People Black Up

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