Doves Quote by Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“And these things I see suddenly, what mean they? As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal’d my eyes, Shadowy vast shapes smile through…

— Walt Whitman

“overhead the birds are calling, their cries seeming to feel the air. As i watch, they rise.. flinging their bodies against the sky, intent…

— Thomas F. Monteleone

“Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath,…

— Franz Kafka

“It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“For a moment, as I listened to her, I felt as if I could step through the distance between us and hear an echo…

— Ken Liu

“...that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“I went walking really early in the morning, you know when stars are yawning and closing their eyes, and flowers and grass begin to…

— Jonathan Renshaw

“The birds swoop nearer. They are gulls. Why, then, We must be close to the ocean! Indeed, The sounds of your music come clearly,…

— Landis Everson

“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“What a world, she thought, where you could at one moment be under a cloud and the next, right in the heart of it;…

— Abby Slovin

“Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything…

— Kyo Maclear

“Up near the top, the view pierces me so totally I have one of those flash thoughts about tossing myself into the ocean. Surrender…

— Amy McNamara