What's invisiblesings, and we bear witness.
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.Rita Dove
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
Rita Dove
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
We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. . . . poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.
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
Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove
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