<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450060" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Parable Of The Dove</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dove lived in a village.<br>When it opened its mouth<br>sweetness came out, sound<br>like a silver light around<br>the cherry bough. But<br>the dove wasn't satisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It saw the villagers<br>gathered to listen under<br>the blossoming tree.<br>It didn't think: I<br>am higher that they are.<br>It wanted to wealk among them,<br>to experience the violence of human feeling,<br>in part for its song's sake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it became human.<br>It found passion, it found violence,<br>first conflated, then<br>as separate emotions<br>and these were not<br>contained by music. Thus<br>its song changed,<br>the sweet notes of its longing to become human<br>soured and flattened. Then</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the world drew back; the mutant<br>fell from love<br>as from the cherry branch,<br>it fell stained with the bloody<br>fruit of the tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it is true after all, not merely<br>a rule of art:<br>change your form and you change your nature.<br>And time does this to us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Gluck">Louise Gluck</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450060" data-title="Parable Of The Dove de Louise Gluck" data-description="A dove lived in a village. When it opened its mouth sweetness came out, sound like a silver light around the cherry bough. But the dove wasn't satisfied. It saw the villagers gathered to listen under the blossoming tree. It didn't think: I am hig..."></div> </div> </div>

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