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Rita Dove

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.


— Rita Dove


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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.


— Rita Dove


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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.


— Rita Dove


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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.


— Rita Dove


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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.


— Rita Dove


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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!


— Rita Dove


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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.


— Rita Dove


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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.


— Rita Dove


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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.


— Rita Dove


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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.


— Rita Dove


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W. From 1993–1995 Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress an office Rita Dove held from 1993 to 1995.

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28 1952) is an American poet and author. Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999–2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 and Rita Dove served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004–2006.

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