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Rita Dove

"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

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"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

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"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

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"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

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