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Rita Dove Quotes

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Guilt Go Two Through High

I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That's a guitar hero for me.

Change Music Hero Me Think Guitar

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Work Marriage Day Cooking Together

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

Good School Song Go Old Old School

I love to offer a playlist to the world, almost like being a deejay.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Love World Being Almost Like Offer

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

Family Texas Kid Guns Up Shot

I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly.

Myself Feel Country Want Been Sting

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

Things Forgive Forgiving Most Very

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Time Need Right Always Last Resist

I don't see myself as Johnny Football.

Myself Football See Johnny

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

Opportunity You Know Want Take

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Love Faith Religion Love Is Feeling

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Mind Writing Speak Process Way Own

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