164 Quotes by Rita Dove

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.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

She took a group of us to see a living author, just a book signing. But that's really all it took to get me started on realizing my dream.