"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally……" — Rita Dove
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
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Rita Dove
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
Rita Dove has 74 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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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…
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed…
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to…
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray…
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Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed…
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Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His…
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Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has…
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a…
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done…
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...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood,…
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All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law…
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