Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation. -Rita Dove

 

Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation.


-Rita Dove
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This quote is just one of 9 total Rita Dove quotes in our collection. Rita Dove is known for saying 'Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far?

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If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

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What's invisible/ sings, and we bear witness.

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Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation.

Rita Dove