Rita Dove Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.”

“When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.”

“Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.”

“I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.”

“Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.”

“I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.”

“I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.”

“The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.”

“All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.”

“I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.”