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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
— Rita Dove
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
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
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
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
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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
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
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
It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove.
— DJ Khaled
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
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
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper
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
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
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
The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.
— Pablo Neruda
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
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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 seesthat,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods — Rudyard Kipling
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
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