More From Rita Dove
- "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."
- "I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
- "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 Death
- "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."― Corazon Aquino
- "The Navy’s paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland."― Laurel Clark
- "We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years."― James Larkin