"Poetry is language at its most distilled and…" — Rita Dove

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

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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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Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.… — Zora Neale Hurston
The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that… — Unknown Author
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.… — Ovid
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the… — James K. Baxter
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as… — John Cheever
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,… — Virginia Woolf
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us… — Dirk Benedict
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness,… — Roland Merullo

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