Rita Dove Quotes & Sayings

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62 most famous Rita Dove quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Rita Dove Quotes
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“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 Quotes
“There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“Libraries are where it all begins.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.”
Rita Dove Quotes
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
“I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.”

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