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Rita Dove Quotes

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.
Rita Dove

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: August 28, 1952

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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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What writing does is to reveal.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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Libraries are where it all begins.
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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.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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