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."
- "There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."
- "What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg’s importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
More In Poetry
- "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."― Wilfred Owen
- "He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."― George Sand
- "So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse."― John Drinkwater