More From Rita Dove
- "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
- "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!"
- "Have you ever heard a good joke? If you’ve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you’re already on the way to poetry. It’s about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."
More In Poetry
- "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."― John Fowles
- "There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write."― Henry R. Luce
- "I don’t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."― Charles Olson