Rita DoveThinkers

The Anecdote is the poor man's history.

Courage is not concerned with a determination to be great, but with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

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

The Poet is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Poetry is the tightest cage, the purest of the language arts whereby it is really something wonderful if one can manage to sing in that cage.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Self-respect is being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.