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“A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow,…

— Emily Dickinson

“I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against…

— Charles Bukowski

“We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the…

— Margaret Atwood

“So like a bit of stone I lie Under a broken tree. I could recover if I shrieked My heart's agony To passing bird,…

— W.B. Yeats

“Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening.…

— Regina O'Melveny

“I jumped up and ran after the words that trailed like the dangling string from an air ball, up and up, from branch to…

— Virginia Woolf

“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.”

— Nadège Richards

“...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.”

— Nathanael West

“There were two kinds of stupid. Stupid people that got drunk and humped trees, and stupid people that just humped trees.”

— Penelope Douglas

“If only it were possible to juicily belch up the life one's lived, chew it anew and gulp it down, and then once more…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their…

— Anthony Liccione