What did Rita Dove mean by: I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. - Rita Dove Poet · USA Copy
+ I write short stories, and I wrote a play. Feraz Zeid, October 15, 2023December 26, 2023, Rita Dove, Stories, Writing, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Feraz Zeid, June 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Rita Dove, Language, Powerful, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ I didn’t know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rita Dove, Being Real, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rita Dove, Writing, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ When I was young, I was older than I am today. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, Rita Dove, Youth, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rita Dove, Explanation, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ It’s unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there’s this need to have things quantified and graded. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Rita Dove, School, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
+ What’s a word, a talisman, to hold against the world? Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Rita Dove, 0 - Rita Dove Poet · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
