Rita Dove
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Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace. The world there was a calm place, even the great Danube no more than a pale ribbon tossed onto the landscapeby a girl’s careless hand. Into this stillness I had been ordered to recover. The hills were gold with late summer; my rooms were two, plus a small kitchen, situated upstairs in the back of a cottage at the end of the Herrengasse. From my window I could see onto the courtyard where a linden tree twined skyward — leafy umbilicus canted toward light, warped in the very act of yearning — and I would feed on the sun as if that alone would dismantle the silence around me. At first I raged. Then music raged in me, rising so swiftly I could not write quickly enough to ease the roiling. I would stop to light a lamp, and whatever I’d missed — larks flying to nest, church bells, the shepherd’s home-toward-evening song — rushed in, and Iwould rage again. I am by nature a conflagration; I would rather leap than sit and be looked at. So when my proud city spread her gypsy skirts, I reentered, burning towards her greater, constant light. Call me rough, ill-tempered, slovenly — I tell you, every tenderness I have ever known has been nothing but thwarted violence, an ache so permanent and deep, the lightest touch awakens it. . . . It is impossible to care enough. I have returned with a second Symphony and 15 Piano Variationswhich I’ve named Prometheus, after the rogue Titan, the half-a-god who knew the worst sin is to take what cannot be given back. I smile and bow, and the world is loud. And though I dare not lean in to shout Can’t you see that I’m deaf? — I also cannot stop listening.
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| MUSIC | 219 clues |
| BEAUTY | 218 clues |
| HORROR | 215 clues |
| DEPTH | 162 clues |
| DEAF | 153 clues |
| DESCRIPTION | 133 clues |
| HISTORY | 105 clues |
| ROMANCE | 101 clues |
| DISGUST | 93 clues |
| SADNESS | 85 clues |
| SCOTLAND | 68 clues |
| BEETHOVEN | 37 clues |
| EDINBURGH | 35 clues |
| CREATIVITY | 31 clues |
| INSPIRING | 21 clues |
| INCEST | 6 clues |
| DECISIONS | 4 clues |
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- A dove ___ 80.00%
- Rita, e.g. 70.59%
- Like a Dove 70.00%
- Turtle dove 70.00%
- Rita's home 70.00%
- Imitate a dove 69.57%
- Parrots a dove 69.57%
- Part of a dove? 69.57%
- Rita Dove, notably 69.23%
- Rita Doves output 69.23%
- CALL DOVE 66.67%
- Variety of dove 66.67%
- Imitated a dove 66.67%
- Imitates a dove 66.67%
- goal Dove 66.67%
- Rock dove 66.67%
- Rita Dove creation 66.67%
- Poet Dove 66.67%
- Dial or Dove 66.67%
- Rita of "Klute" 63.64%
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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