More From Rita Dove
- "The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something."
- "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."
- "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."