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Black Dove, let's write. Let's work on a story. Let's work on Glassland."
"Make me a prisoner in the Fortress of Clarity."
"Got to rescue you. — Elizabeth Wein

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

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. — William Shakespeare

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

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home. — Gene Hill

I say love, and the world populates itself with doves. — Pablo Neruda

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

Nothing matters but the quality of the affection - in the end - that has carved the trace in the mind dove — Mary Karr

Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.'
Black Book 2 — C. G. Jung

We have an epilogue, remember? — Evelyn Deshane

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

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe

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

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault — Brandon Mull

Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love To spite a raven's heart within a dove. — William Shakespeare

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow. — Larry McMurtry

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

Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men. — Victor Hugo

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. — Edith Piaf

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. — Erin Hunter

In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ... — Mahmoud Darwish

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person. — Rita Dove

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest. — Isaac Ambrose

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right. — Christian Hosoi

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. — Rita Dove

Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety. — Thomas Watson

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. — Rita Dove

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise. — John Wyndham

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. — Rita Dove

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. — Jean Genet

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
Of dirt ... It is not possible for the moon
To blot this with its dove-winged blendings. — Wallace Stevens

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book. — Barry Corbin

Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird - a peace dove - spreads its wings from end to end. — Kathryn Stockett

A heart with love flies like a dove in the sky of beauty and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary

Dove turned and gave him a "what the fuck are you doing - at least you're wearing pants, fudge dick" look. — Debra Anastasia

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird ... you're all the light in the world. — Ann Aguirre

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain. — Auliq Ice

She was desperate,
she was deathless. I'd have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I'd have
thrown myself to the wild for her. — Elisabeth Hewer

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free. — Leonard Cohen

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. — Rita Dove

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. — Heinrich Heine

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. — Shawn Amos

by the end of the week, all the cowboys along the river knew that the only sporting woman in Lonesome Dove had abruptly given up the sport. — Larry McMurtry

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

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

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. — Horace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sex was the first dove. — Parker Tyler

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

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

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

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. — Rita Dove

The coo of a single dove had changed everything. — Dan Brown

The dove is my emblem. — Thomas A. Edison

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow? — Rita Dove

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'
Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes — Falcon Dove

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong ... it's Independence Day. — Martina Mcbride

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget — Ann Brashares

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal

Preacher nodded then dove beneath the water, bare ass the last thing we saw. Becca made annoyed sounds that indicated sure punishment later for him. — Lucian Bane

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

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories. — Roja Dove

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

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

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

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

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

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. — 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 paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box. — Patti Smith