Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and author. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States (1993–1995), and is the only poet awarded both the National Humanities Medal (1996) and the National Medal of Arts (2011).

Quotes

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

• I am Rita Dove,
  the beautiful dove.
  See my black neck,
  see my speck.
  
  My ass is not so much cracked
  but i want to get out now.
  
  The poet, am I.
  Am me.
  • America, 1988^{[specific citation needed]}
• The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
  • Rita Dove's definition of the world "library", as displayed on a sign at the entrance of the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine.

External links

• Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia with links to numerous resources