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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."
"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
"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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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"
Explore more quotes by Rita Dove
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."
"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."
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