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Thinking Quotes by Rita Dove
- 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 keeps…
- All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think,…
- The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I…
- If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
- By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we…
- 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…
- The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from…
- I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved…
- I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
- I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
- I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
- People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found…
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