Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.
Rita DoveIf weโre 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. Itโs the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
Rita DoveA good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
Rita DoveI was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?
Rita Dove