Dove Quotes

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

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.

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.

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

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

A dove carries peace on its wings.

I refuse to be put in a cage that gleams golden for many, but bronze for me. I would much rather be a dove in the sky, flying out into the open, into the sky, into the beyond.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

Soft on the neck of either dove love's hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love's twilight wanes...

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

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove...

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

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . .