More From Rita Dove
- "I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "What is poetry which does not save nations or people?"― Czeslaw Milosz
- "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."― Joseph Joubert
- "Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that."― Robert Adamson