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Rita Dove Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: August 28, 1952

Topics

Music Poetry Think Language Try Two

I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play it that night. That's been fun for me because it's a little bit of a scary adventure, playing a song for the first time in front of people and letting it just be what it is.

Time Adventure Fun People Me Song

My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.

Father Because Chief Nigeria

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

Love Good Memories Me Mom Someone

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

Me Important Accept Knowing Coach

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Writing You Important Playing Going

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Learning Genius Idiot Body Skills

If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

Control Pressure Horse You Will Ask

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.

Funny Marriage Wife Hell First He

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Women Time Woman Feel Get I Feel

Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

Life Work Family Dog Home Walk

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

Father People College Feel You Bad

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

Donald Ray Pollock

Writing Weird Like Guess About Sort

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