Rita Dove

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

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

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.