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Letter "R" » Rita Dove Quotes
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.»
Author: Rita Dove
| About:
Celebrity,
Scientists,
Value
| Keywords:
celebrities, drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, In the Shadows, sun-drenched, The Shadows, thinkers
«I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on»
Author: Rita Dove
| About:
Exploration
| Keywords:
crystallize, crystallized, crystallizes, explore, hinge, hinge on
«Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far?»
Author: Rita Dove
«Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation.»
Author: Rita Dove
«Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.»
Author: Rita Dove
«What's invisible/ sings, and we bear witness.»
Author: Rita Dove
«Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?»
Author: Rita Dove
«She took a group of us to see a living author, just a book signing. But that's really all it took to get me started on realizing my dream.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Rita Dove
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