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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."

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"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."

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"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
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"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."
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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 try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
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"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!"
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"What writing does is to reveal."
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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
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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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"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
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