Quotes About Rita Dove

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Seas was the one who'd urged her to tattoo the scars she'd cut with the razor blade. the serpent- sign of transformation and healing. The quote, from Rita Dove's poem "Dawn Revisited." About second chances. The whole sky is yours to write on, blown open