Quotes by Rita Dove

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going...

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with...

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for...

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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S....

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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...

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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is...

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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first...

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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me,...

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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there...

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