Author: Rita Dove

Quotes

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

- Rita Dove

I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.

I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.

- Rita Dove

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

- Rita Dove

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

- Rita Dove

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

- Rita Dove

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

- Rita Dove

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

- Rita Dove

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

- Rita Dove

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

- Rita Dove

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