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Rita Dove has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,…
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It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,…
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Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm…
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It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was…
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Yesterday is an old paper, Today is a news paper, Tomorrow is a question paper, But life is an answer paper. So…
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