1. cleave - Noun
2. cleave - Verb
4. Cleave - Proper noun
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
To part or open naturally; to divide.
To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me. Giordano Bruno
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside. Paula Modersohn-Becker
To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. Nikos Kazantzakis
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Marcus Aurelius
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. Mikhail Bakunin
Each colored voter of the state should say in scripture phrase, 'may my hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth' if ever I raise my voice or give my vote to the nominee of the Democratic Party. Frederick Douglass