Quotes by : Rita Dove

The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It's....

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her....

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

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

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns....

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and....

Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm place,....

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some....

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