quotations about birds
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.
MONIQUE DUVALL
attributed, Life After Breath
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
DEJAN STOJANOVICH
The Creator
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Auguries of Innocence
A bird knows nothing of gladness,
Is only a song machine.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Book of Dreams
I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.
MARK NEPO
Facing the Lion, Being the Lion
The bird is my neighbour, he leaves not a claim for a sigh,
He moves as the guest of the sunlight--he roams in the sky.
SHAW NEILSON
The Crane is My Neighbor
Lo--a black line of birds in wavering thread
Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!
EMMA LAZARUS
The Cranes of Ibicus
With Nature never do they wage
A foolish strife; they see
A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Fountain
The bird is both ancient and excellent, sober and wise,
But he never could spend all the love that is sent for his eyes.
He bleats no instruction, he is not an arrogant drummer;
His gown is simplicity--blue as the smoke of the summer.
How patient he is as he puts out his wings for the blue!
His eyes are as old as the twilight, and calm as the dew.
SHAW NEILSON
The Crane is My Neighbor
Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings.
LEMIÈRRE
Fastes
If I stayed here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you can not change
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
"Free Bird"
Be like the bird which on frail branches balanced
A moment sits and sings;
He feels them tremble, but he sings unshaken,
Knowing that he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO
Wings
Many strange birds are on the air abroad,
Nor are all of one flight or of one force,
But each after his kind dissimilar.
GUINICELLI
Of Moderation and Tolerance
The little birds of the field have God for their caterer.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Yet this was but a simple bird,
Alone, among dead trees.
W.A. PERCY
Overtones
A small bird will drop frozen dead
From a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. LAWRENCE
Self-Pity
The blackbird amid leafy trees,
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Fountain
A little bird told me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV
Upon his saddle sprung a bird
And crossed a thousand trees
Before a fence without a fare
His fantasy did please
And then he lifted up his throat
And squandered such a note
A Universe that overheard
Is stricken by it yet--
EMILY DICKINSON
"Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird"
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Toll Slowly