“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystalliz...” — Rita Dove Quote

“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”

“Going 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.”

“It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.”

“So the difference between goalkeepers and outfielders is the little, tiny, minute details which are the difference and when they go against you, they are really glaring and they will be spotted.”

“RuPaul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.”

“Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”