Poetry Quote by Rita Dove — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“don't think you can ever forget her”

“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.”

“From her thighs, she gives you life”

“If you’re John Muir you want trees to”

“Is it a wolf I hear,”

“It’s the fire in my eyes,”

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

“A wounded dear leaps the highest”