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" It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles. "
Rita Dove
Colors
Christian
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" My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. "
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" In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. "
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Process
" I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. "
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Creativity
I Believe
" I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. "
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" Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. "
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Find
Adversity
Oppression
" What writing does is to reveal. "
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Reveal
Writing
" I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. "
Rita Dove
He
Important
Reading
" 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. "
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Poetry
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" One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. "
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Community
Will
" The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. "
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Joy
Up
Working
" I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. "
Rita Dove
Be Real
Know
Never
" If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. "
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Read
Find
Love
" 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. "
Rita Dove
Moments
Myself
Think
" I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. "
Rita Dove
Way
Always
Been
" I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. "
Rita Dove
High School
Think
Science
" Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. "
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Human Spirit
Yourself
True
" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "
Rita Dove
You
Teachers
Poetry
" For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. "
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Art
How
Literature
" I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually. "
Rita Dove
Midnight
Best
Night
" 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. "
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Going
You
Write
" People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. "
Rita Dove
Think
Sometimes
People
" It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. "
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Life
College
Write
" When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. "
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Angel
Being
Something
" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "
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Two
Try
" My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. "
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Mother
Parents
You
" I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. "
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My Life
Amazing
Me
" I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. "
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Through
Day
Go
" If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. "
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Spirit
Trust
Choice
" Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. "
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Should
Name
Divided
" There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. "
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You
Life
Complaining