"For many years, I thought a poem was……" — Rita Dove

"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."

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74 Quotes by Rita Dove

Rita Dove has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before…
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable,…
When I was young, I was older than I am today.
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about…
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of…
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen…
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process…
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his…
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I…

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More Aria Quotes

This quote is filed under Aria Quotes, one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful… — Dominic Chianese
Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him? — Joe Louis
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight — Michael Bolton
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about… — Unknown Author
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the… — Patricia Hampl
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always… — Thomas Beecham
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The… — Geraldo Rivera
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a… — Alan Jay Lerner
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day.… — Nina Arianda
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number… — James Fenton
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,… — Colm Toibin
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut

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