Rita Dove Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

  Rita Dove

  Powerful, Reading Poetry, Language

• If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

  Rita Dove

  Skeletons, Essence, World

• 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

  Thinking, Two, Trying

• To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.

  Rita Dove

  Dark, Soul, Littles

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