Rita Dove Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Rita Dove quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 62 we have.
“I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.”
“I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.”
“Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.”
“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.”
“What writing does is to reveal.”
“Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.”
“As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.”
“Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.”
“There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.”
“Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.”
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