Doves Quotes

57 quotes by 54 authors

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem… — James Fenton
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. — Charles Krauthammer
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you… — Unknown Author
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die — Nikolai Gogol
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth… — Douglas Coupland
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter… — Barbara Kingsolver
Life with you was lovelyâ€”and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink â€˜vâ€™ in the middle and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my… — Pablo Neruda
Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup… — Teresa Medeiros
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He… — Dennis Lehane
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young… — Jane Yolen
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to… — Ilona Andrews
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the poem is done. — Buddy Wakefield
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with… — Christina Rossetti
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In… — William Shakespeare

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