Quote by Rita Dove
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls,

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. – Rita Dove

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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

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and Ive seen ecstasy or something. – Rita Dove

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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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