The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. - Rita Dove
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
- Rita Dove
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more. - Rita Dove
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. - Rita Dove
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. - Rita Dove
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. - Rita Dove
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate. - Rita Dove
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. - Rita Dove
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something tha… - Rita Dove
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something tha…
Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree. - Rita Dove
Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.
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