#pear

While I slept you stood in the colorful night market with pyramids of bright fruit piled high Where those who loved you, rushing back to their intimate stalls, held out pears that had been dreamed for you And would the dream pear not come gladly once it knew this was you wanting to take it in? The dream pear chose reality, wanting your mouth as I did - Honestly, it was happy to be bitten. ↗

— Brenda Hillman

#dream #love #market #pear #dreams

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#appeared #complex #infinitely #me #more

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dangerous #fact #far #front #games

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#comes #down #elements #going #i

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online. ↗

— John Doolittle

#appear #charge #control #could #countries

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#always #appear #evil #good #good and evil

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

#alive #come #extremely #had #i