Quotes by : Rita Dove

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist....

I was pirouette and flourish,I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know....

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused....

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front....

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

NexusI wrote stubbornly into the evening.At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench....

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

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves....