I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
