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1. "If you cannot be free, be a mystery." ~ Rita Dove
2. "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible." ~ Rita Dove
3. "When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings." ~ Rita Dove
4. "I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things." ~ Rita Dove
5. "The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings." ~ Rita Dove
6. "If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings." ~ Rita Dove
7. "NexusI wrote stubbornly into the evening.At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,begging vacantly with pale eyes;and the commas leapt at me like wormsor miniature scythes blackened with age.the praying mantis screeched louder,his ragged jaws opening into formlessness.I walked outside;the grass hissed at my heels.Up ahead in the lapping darknesshe wobbled, magnified and absurdly green,a brontosaurus, a poet." ~ Rita Dove
8. "I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on." ~ Rita Dove
9. "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." ~ Rita Dove
10. "My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets." ~ Rita Dove
11. "Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet." ~ Rita Dove
12. "It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate." ~ Rita Dove
13. "I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it." ~ Rita Dove
14. "I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers." ~ Rita Dove
15. "I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer." ~ Rita Dove
16. "I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day." ~ Rita Dove
17. "I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person." ~ Rita Dove
18. "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
19. "I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them." ~ Rita Dove
20. "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
21. "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
22. "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
23. "The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it." ~ Rita Dove

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