Quotes by Rita Dove

Rita Dove

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It’s concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Cubes

Needs

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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.

Childhood

Thinking

Where We Come

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Anyone can tell you that how you’re raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

Book

Children

Mother

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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.

School

Thinking

White

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At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it’s like analyzing myself.

Thinking

Trying

Writing

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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.

Realizing

Utterance

Voice

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

Be True To Yourself

Mean

Spirit

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By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Mean

Opportunity

Thinking

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Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there’s space to grow?

Fit

Grows

Space

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Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Determination

Moments

That Moment

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