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Bird Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish…
- The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With…
- O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,…
- Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
- This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can…
- Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see…
- Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it?…
- You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped…
- If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
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- It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
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- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor. — Roseanne Barr
- I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
- A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? — Drew Barrymore