More From Rita Dove
- "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."
- "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
- "The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something."
More In Poetry
- "A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances."― Douglas Dunn
- "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks."― Edward Koch
- "I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."― Shelby Foote