Rita Dove Quotes

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.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Johannes P. Muller

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I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Roberto Benigni

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Michael Korda

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Let others worry about their own lives, and let the rest of us live.

Juan Gabriel

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Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

Jordi Molla

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I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

Brendon Urie

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And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Norman MacCaig

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I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Richard C. Armitage

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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

Kendrick Lamar

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I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Kimberly Elise

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I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.

Jamie Lynn Spears

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