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....

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

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

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

Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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

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

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things....

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