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

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Rita Dove

What writing does is to reveal.
Rita Dove

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

Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove

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

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

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove