Libraries are where it all begins. (Rita Dove)

Libraries are where it all begins.

More Rita Dove quotes

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

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