Rita Dove Library Quotations

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

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.

Libraries are where it all begins.

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