More From Rita Dove
- "If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
- "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
- "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
More In Poetry
- "To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."― Octavio Paz
- "PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."― Diane Wakoski
- "That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said."― Robert Creeley