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Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Source: In The Quotable...

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Rita Dove: What's invisible<br>sings, and...

Rita Dove: What's invisible<br>sings, and...

What's invisible
sings, and we bear witness.


Source: The Hill Has Something to...

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Rita Dove: Sometimes&lt;br&gt;a word is...

Rita Dove: Sometimes<br>a word is...

Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.


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Rita Dove: Here&#039;s a riddle...

Rita Dove: Here's a riddle...

Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too...

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Rita Dove: If only the...

Rita Dove: If only the...

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time...

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Rita Dove: I prefer to...

Rita Dove: I prefer to...

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives...

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Rita Dove: We tend to...

Rita Dove: We tend to...

We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have...

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Rita Dove: If you can&#039;t...

Rita Dove: If you can't...

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

Source: Canary, lines 1 - and last line,...

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Rita Dove: Can it be...

Rita Dove: Can it be...

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to...

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Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things...

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