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Rita Dove Quotes

American - Poet | August 28, 1952 -

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Moments Explore Most Our

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.

Learning Father Mother Parents You

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.

Community Alone Will Eternity Gone

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread More May Favorite Butter Your

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Life College Writing More Write

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Child Thought Loved You Childish

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Live People Know Never Real Be Real

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.

God Book Thought Loved Dream Person

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Book Library Choose Feeling Place

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Music Poetry Think Language Try Two

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Sometimes Need Things Unfortunate

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Good Words Poetry Someone You Way

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