"If we really want to be full and……" — Rita Dove
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
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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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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
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