“In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.” WorldWayNeedsWritingSometimesFactsAbleQualityToolsTime Travel 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
“My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsWould BeAgeAbleSoundInterestingAdvicePoetEasierDown AndDigitalDigital Age Author:Rita Dove
“A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.” NeedsCubes Author:Rita Dove
“It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.” NeedsSometimesSchoolUnfortunate 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
