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 DoveGoing 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 DoveI think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
Rita DoveIt really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing
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