“The spirit looks upon the Dust That fastened it so long With indignation, As a Bird Defrauded of it's Song.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.”… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life. I wish they could talk. I have questions.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly!” — Alberto Granado Copy Share Image
I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Birds prefer trees with dead branches,’ said Caravaggio. ‘They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys:… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from… — John Murray Copy Share Image
“But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she’s… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A charm of Goldfinches swooped in and settled on a stand of thistles, pecking at the down. It was a scene Jejeune… — Steve Burrows Copy Share Image
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire… Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
