Rita Dove Quotes

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.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodWordsPoetrySomeoneYouWay

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Burnside

WorkTimeMindEnoughDownI Can

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

John Key

TimeProblemsThinkMeetingMoral

I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.

Michael Cimino

LifeMoviesWithoutHad

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

Amy Landecker

ThoughtMaybeFemale

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

PurposeFightCorruptionLiterature

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

Marvin Olasky

PeopleStoryBadPlayUnderstand

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LifeMusicDailyDanceMeWorld

My mom died when I was 8.

Lisa Guerrero

MomDied

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

Davy Jones

PeopleReadingRetirementInternet

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

Chris Crutcher

FearCommunityYouLoseTurnMay

Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Chris Hemsworth

MeMeetingsDoorsYouDoneActor

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

Cheryl Hayashi

CuteAlwaysJumpingJustSpiders

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