Rita Dove , American poet

said about Adversity, Being, Literature, Oppression, Order, Words...

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"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
- Rita Dove

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