Rita Dove Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

  Rita Dove

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

• 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

  Teacher, Children, Trying

• For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack of respect artists got here. In my heart, I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

  Rita Dove

  Art, Years, People

  The Book Report Interview, www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

• Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

  Rita Dove

  Adversity, Order, Literature

• Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Age, Attention

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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