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Rita Dove

American Poet

Born: Aug 28, 1952

About Me People Poet Think You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. Rita Dove

Life You Complaining Complaints About Something Instead Times Your

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. Rita Dove

Thought Poem Aria Overheard Years Heard Whisper Many

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. Rita Dove

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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. Rita Dove

Yourself Complexities Spirit True Human Being Really Means Human Spirit

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

Best Times Person Six Midnight Actually Night

Libraries are where it all begins. Rita Dove

Libraries Begins Where

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. Rita Dove

You Matter Think Else Ought Write Never Because Dealing Subject Yield Going Anyone Anyone Else Anything Really Reasons

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. Rita Dove

Pleasure Rap Geared Only Verbal Aural End Whole Play Spectrum

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. Rita Dove

Me First Everywhere Carry Only Step First Step Notebook

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. Rita Dove

Creativity People Believe Make Going May Artistic Mean

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. Rita Dove

Life People Think Everything Out One Of The Things Some Poetry Poets Tend Write Impetus Put Piece Around Shelf Real Up Forget Gets Happening Then Us Things Set

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. Rita Dove

You Speak Poet Practice Young Symphony Scales Order Your Play

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. Rita Dove

You Travel World Think Poem Write Aged Certainly

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. Rita Dove

History Woman School Picture Important White Down Think Way Though Entered Never Been Male Handed Very Privileges Taught African-American Which Might Certain Aspects Things

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