Bird Quote by Guy Davenport Download Open image “The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.” — Guy Davenport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Forget Lifetime Suffering
“Birds of sorrow may fly over our heads, But we must prevent them from building their nests, For they can cause pain that is… — Nadine Sadaka Boulos Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary for him to discover some element of pleasure, no matter how humble or on how low a level, in his environment if he is to go on living at all. In my case these insignificant birds with their… — Anna Kavan Copy Share
“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“I God, a very Gomorry on wheels! You lead the most exciting life I know of, and complain more about it than any two… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
