My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.Rita Dove
If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
Rita Dove
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
Rita Dove
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
Rita Dove
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove
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