Bird Quote by Emily Dickinson

I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the…

— Emily Dickinson

“I would fix my eyes, without limit of time, upon the trunk of a distant tree, from behind which she must appear and spring…

— Marcel Proust

“Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?”

— Lionel Suggs

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Maybe I can stand alone. Maybe I'm strong as stone. Even though the bird has flown, maybe you'll fly on home.”

— Alison Krauss

“She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know…

— Andre Dubus III

Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed…

— Emily Dickinson

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

— Nina Schuyler