164 Quotes by Rita Dove

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

I was pirouette and flourish,I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the manyand she is each of us

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.