Logo
Quote by Rita Dove
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is

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. – Rita Dove

Other quotes by Rita Dove

Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then youre already on the way to poetry. Its about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. – Rita Dove

Category:
Poetry
Author
Rita Dove
Read Quote

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

Category:
Age
Author
Rita Dove
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

Category:
Poetry

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

Category:
Poetry

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

Category:
Poetry

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. – Henry R. Luce

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. – Finley Peter Dunne

Category:
Yearbooks

Women, more often than not, do things which arent remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work. – Julie Burchill

Category:
Women

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. – K.T. Jong

Category:
Heart

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. – Gore Vidal

Category:
great