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Since she's discovered
men would rather drown
than nibble,
she does just
fine. — Rita Dove

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged. — Patch Adams

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, Hallelujah. — Leonard Cohen

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other. — Rita Dove

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove. — John Boyle O'Reilly

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. — Rita Dove

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. — Rita Dove

The ring-dove sang from the willow spray, Well-a-day! Well-a-day! He mourn'd for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day! — Jacob Grimm

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark — Franz Kafka

Be a combination of a dove and the serpent; not a monster, but a prodigy. — Baltasar Gracian

A put together Johnson made her vagina purr. Sloppy Johnson made it roar. — Debra Anastasia

Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. — Saint Augustine

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Dove ripped her panties off her body like the Hulk and threw them in the corner. — Debra Anastasia

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. — Mourning Dove

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. — Rita Dove

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand. — Rita Dove

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got. — Rita Dove

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East. — Madeleine Albright

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." - PSALM 55:6 — Chonda Pierce

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it. — Ozzy Osbourne

It couldn't be good to want something this bad. Want someone this bad. I'm just me. Oh God. I'm me, and he's him. — Debra Anastasia

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. — Rita Dove

Women invented misery,
but we don't understand it. — Rita Dove

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. — Horace

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. — Rita Dove

It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove. — DJ Khaled

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. — Rita Dove

This child could not command a pet dove.
Harsh but true, lol! — Philippa Gregory

This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. — Bailey Bristol

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove

Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. — Nancy Rue

A dove has great beauty, but is easily broken. — Kristen Ashley

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. — Wilferd Peterson

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more. — Rita Dove

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper

Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two. — Amanda Mosher

If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi. — Rita Dove

The world seemed leached of color. The river was the color of steel, the sky gray as a dove, the horizon a thick black painted line in the distance. — Cassandra Clare

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside. — Arthur Dove

A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive. — Jason Versey

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

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. — Rita Dove

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded. — Rita Dove

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of. — Clarice Lispector

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. — Tommy Lasorda

I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box. — Patti Smith

It's bad to be a dragon."
"Says who? Nothing wrong with a little bit of viciousness. Would you rather be a dove or a dragon? — Roshani Chokshi

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. — Rita Dove

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature. — Arthur Dove

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves. — Arthur Dove

You're my dove,just like the one in the apartment,only much different.You're more special,more free,more human.You're my dove and I'm your keeper. — Emily James Ray

He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload. — Ilona Andrews

The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar. — Pablo Neruda

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic. — Rita Dove

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. — Saint Augustine

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo ... off he went. — Corrie Ten Boom

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it. — Viktor E. Frankl

Libraries are where it all begins. — Rita Dove

Sex was the first dove. — Parker Tyler

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove

Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods — Rudyard Kipling

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither. — Rita Dove

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. — Rita Dove

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. — Tommy Lasorda

If you can't be free, be a mystery. — Rita Dove

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove? — Suzy Kassem

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

Aye, it's true. I've spent long years seeking a wee dove to adore. But not because I wished for one to tend. I've wanted one with whom I could soar. — Veronica Wolff

The Owl goes who, who, the Dove goes coo, coo, humans go you! You! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. — Rita Dove

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. — Rita Dove

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. — Nelson Algren

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove! — Mark Twain

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty

Seriously, she'd been tricked into bringing him toilet paper on the crapper too many times not to know he was a little shortsighted. — Debra Anastasia

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go. — Nelson Algren

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

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

I am not your dove," he ground out, barely loud enough to hear. "I am a wolf. — Rosemary O'Malley

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. — William Shakespeare

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. — Robert Duvall

You want to see what this is like? Then please don't use your imagination. Use experience. — Debra Anastasia

For days after her horrendous meeting with Mr. Johnson Loudy McSexypus Fitzwell, Dove would stop to just blush from head to toe. — Debra Anastasia

Coo ... coo ... here comes the dove from above! — Vic Reeves

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree. — Rita Dove

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. — Jordan Sonnenblick

I'm not a broken dove, I'm a sly fox." - Verona Rubelle — Angela Richardson