Bats Quote by David Almond

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will…

— Anonymous

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn,…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can…

— Shannon Hale

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

— W. H. Davies

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

— Andrew Motion

“They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds,…

— Laura Gentile

“Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!”

— Avijeet Das

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

— Anonymous