List of Rita Dove Quotes

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Rita Dove
Total Quotes 101
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
Order Practice Play
To write for pc reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. it has to matter to you.
Writing Thinking Yield
Crassly put: when i write, i am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
Writing Trying Reader
I was appointed poet laureate. it came totally out of the blue because most poet laureates had been considerably older than i. it was not something that i even had begun to dream about!
Dream Blue Poet
I think reading shakespeare's plays when i was young was extremely important. he had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Reading Thinking Play
I change jobs like drinking water ... and as i grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink i regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. so i break camp; i shed skins.
Jobs Drinking Water
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. i pick up the folders according to how i feel about that color that day.
Color Folders Feels
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.
Dream Book Far Away
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. i am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Art Optimistic Perspective
I write short stories, and i wrote a play.
Writing Play Stories
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
Teacher Children Trying
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.
Mother Father Parent
  • Born: August 28, 1952
  • Occupation: Poet
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