Author: Rita Dove

Quotes

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

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

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

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

- 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

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

- Rita Dove

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

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

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

- Rita Dove

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