Quotes of Rita Dove - somelinesforyou

“ It’s unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there’s this need to have things quantified and graded. ”

- Rita Dove

“ Everybody who’s anybody longs to be a tree. ”

- Rita Dove

“ From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside. ”

- Rita Dove

“ Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly with pale eyes; and the commas leapt at me like worms or miniature scythes blackened with age. the praying mantis screeched louder, his ragged jaws opening into formlessness. I walked outside; the grass hissed at my heels. Up ahead in the lapping darkness he wobbled, magnified and absurdly green, a brontosaurus, a poet. ”

- Rita Dove

“ From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside. ”

- Rita Dove

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

- Rita Dove

“ Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far? ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”

- Rita Dove

“ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ”

- Rita Dove

“ I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ”

- Rita Dove

“ Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far? ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove

“ 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. ”

- Rita Dove
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