“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.” IfsChildrenTogetherValuesSunSeeingShadowToughScientistOur ChildrenThinkerTough Times Author:Rita Dove
“Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.” NeedsKindChildrenBookMotherStuffDealsProveAdultsRaisedComplexesTraditionalBehaveHistory BooksProving YourselfTraditional Family Author:Rita Dove
“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsHeartMeanChildrenPersonsMadeDifferentFeelingsAmericaYoungSpeakVoiceDarknessKnow HowGrowing UpGreaterGrowingImagineEmpowermentOur ChildrenDareNeighborhoodNot AloneDifferent WorldsSinisterStumblingSpeak From The Heart Author:Rita Dove
“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.” FeelsChildrenBookHandsPossibilityPaperPagesWeightWarmSpotsIntimateEcstasyLapLeatherDaydreamingBindingCrispsOdorPages Turning Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.” WritingChildrenChildish Things Author:Rita Dove
“I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.” ThinkingChildrenTalentInsightBeaten Author:Rita Dove
“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.” NeedsTryingChildrenLiteratureTeacherCome UpCurriculum Author:Rita Dove
“We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.” FeelsShouldChildrenMatterNo Matter WhatKeep Learning Author:Rita Dove
