Quotes about Rita Dove

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems...

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us...

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Libraries are where it all begins.

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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about...

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and...

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to...

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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy...

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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice...

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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively...

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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered...

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