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"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."
"I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it."
"I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment."
"Dream as if everything is possible."
"I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I can."
Explore more quotes by Rita Dove
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
"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."
"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."
"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early."
"To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you."
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
"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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