I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.Rita Dove
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
Rita Dove
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Rita Dove
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove
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 think we're redefining it now.
Rita Dove
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
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