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  • Homepage Made by Other Students
  • Audio Clip of "Weathering Out"

Quotations

"In my poems, and in my stories, too, I try very hard to create characters who are seen as individuals—not only as Blacks or women, or whatever, but as a Black woman with her own particular problems, or one White bum struggling in a particular predicament—as persons who have their very individual lives, and whose histories make them react to the world in their individual ways."
—Rita Dove

"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to these moments and realize, This is when I became myself."
- Rita Dove


"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
-Rita Dove


"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."
-Rita Dove
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