Feel Quotes
Categories
Authors
Professions
Nationalities
About
Author Index:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Rita Dove
American
August 28, 1952
Poet
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
Tags:
Poetry
Most
Language
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
Rita Dove
Tags:
Things
Need
Sometimes
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Rita Dove
Tags:
Really
Being
Human
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
Tags:
Music
Poetry
About
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Rita Dove
Tags:
Time
Age
Poetry
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Rita Dove
Tags:
Amazing
Me
Life
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
Tags:
More
Really
Life
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove
Tags:
You
Never
Something
