Rita Dove Quotes

• I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn’t mean they’re going to make it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

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  Tags in Understand, Fail

• For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

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• Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

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• Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

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• All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

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• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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• You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible.

   

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Rita Dove (50)

Birth:	28th August, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Poet

About

Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993–1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She was the first African American to be appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 out of the previous "consultant in poetry" position.

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