Rita Dove Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• Libraries are where it all begins.

  Rita Dove

  Library, Librarian

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

  Rita Dove

  Two, Smell, Childhood

• The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

  Rita Dove

  Doors, Soul, Library

• Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Feelings, Library

• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Aggravation, Library

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