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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
Explore more quotes by Rita Dove
"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
"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."
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
"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."
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